Posted on 05/30/2012 7:42:36 AM PDT by bkopto
The parasitic illness called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to a new study.
An estimated 10 million people worldwide are infected with most sufferers in Bolivia, Mexico, Columbia and Central America, as well as approximately 30,000 people in the U.S....
The disease - once largely contained to Latin America - has spread into the U.S due to increases in travel and immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Full Title:
The 'new AIDS of the Americas': Experts warn of deadly insect-borne disease that can cause victims' hearts to explode
Translation: need a new health crisis for the next round of vaccines to sterilize and control the population.
I prefer the Chivas disease myself but I believe that one is bottle-borne.
But it will bust your liver, not your heart...........
Changas, Percusis and the Whooping Cough, just waiting for Polio and Small Pox to make an appearance. Just a matter of time.
Killing Americans that other americans aren’t willing to kill. Just more blessings from down south, all thanks to the DEMS and illegal aliens coming across our borders.
If they can’t follow the laws we have, why would you expect them to follow any immunization laws in our schools.... our laws don’t apply to them.
The headline is nonsensical — the disease has no relation, or similarity to, AIDS, in symptomology, or means of transmission...
I thought that the only way you could get this was to be bitten by a reduvid bug, but when you open your borders to the dregs of other countries’ populations (get ‘em on welfare as quick as you can so they vote Democrat) then I guess you get all sorts of diseases with them.
“The parasitic illness called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV,....”
Oh in that case.......Easy preventive....stay out of gay San Francisco bath houses. My risk is less than zero...whew!
You are absolutely correct. This is attempt# 5 zillion and 2 to normalize/destigmatize AIDS, as just one more bad thing that can “happen” to you.
One gets Chaga’s primarily by being poor and from S America, wherever the bug is that carries the disease.
To paraphrase an infectious disease prof from years ago, it is possible to get AIDS sitting on a toilet seat, but it is more comfortable to do so in bed. The point being that behavior under one’s conscious control is the biggest risk factor.
Another reason to love New England where once a year the bugs die by the truckload.
This type of news makes me realize that “Our Diversity Is Our Strength!”
About twenty years ago, there was a young Brazilian immigrant (illegal I think) who was a client of a crisis pregnancy center I volunteered at, who had Chagas disease and went into heart failure after delivering her baby. The Brazilian community was raising money to send her back to Brazil for a heart transplant when she died.
You can get it from blood or organ transplants and it has been transmitted that way in the US - is now tested for. You can get it from eating the crushed bugs - in fruit pulp or juice. Brazilian OJ anyone? hope it’s sufficiently pasteurized. The kissing bug is now found as far north as Oklahoma and I believe dogs have been infected but not humans here. Anyway very few transmission cases here, nearly all immigration cases.
The rate of new infections has declined in the tropics, with fewer people living in thatch roof housing, or close association with small animals. But there is no vaccine as the trypanosome is genetically very variable, and the treatments have very serious side effects and are not always effective. Nasty beastie. Can give you megacolon or encephalopathy too.
On the plus side, Brazil’s heart surgeons have been forced to come up with some innovative treatments that may be applicable to other cases of heart failure.
You’re right - one more thing to add to the list of ‘stuff dems have given us’...
Chemical soaks baby chothes (fire retardant)
AIDS
Illegal immigration
Chagas Disease
Toilets that don’t flush
Lightbulbs with creepy light...
Teachers that can’t teach
Colleges that cost more than a house
High unemployment
A country that’s broke
etc. etc. etc.
etc. etc. etc.
Correct this disease is not like AIDS - for one it is not sexually transmitted. But - if the disease causing organism or the vector acclimatizes ...on its steady march north - this could eventually bring the disease to the U.S.A. What the stream of illegal aliens bring to the party is a growing pool of infected blood - a reservoir for blood sucking insects to feed on. And it would be possible for a new vector to develop such as the bed bug (also increasing due to the march north of illegal aliens). Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (an amoeba I think), which is transmitted to animals and people by insect vectors that are found only in the Americas (mainly, in rural areas of Latin America where poverty is widespread). The insect vectors are called triatomine bugs (also called kissing bugs or cone nose bugs). Chagas disease is also referred to as American trypanosomiasis.
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Chagas Disease, thanks bkopto.
About the crushed bugs in OJ: Interesting. I’ve made it a point for years to buy juice from US producers— mainly Florida, of course. I’d decided that I just did not know what Brazil’s laws were in regard to pesticides. I also decided to buy USA out of principle. I suppose this issue is another good reason.
I know its probably dangerous but if these girls are suffering from some disease I will be glad to treat them! Its a dirty job but somebodies got to step up!
3rd world disease for a 1st world country.
We can thank LBJ, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and The Imposter for that!
I suppose an ‘over willingness to please’ on the part of our ‘government’, greed, or just plain corruption causes U.S. Citizens to have be put in peril of chemical laced and parasite ridden Brazilian OJ, chemicals of all nature in food products from China - even deadly dog and cat foods... How is it in any way good for this country to have such lax import standards? Someone is benefiting but it is not the average citizen.
Ricky Holder's killing Mexicans just as Fast and Furiously as he can.
Who knows?
Aids was smuggled into the USA in the rear end of a Hudson.
This new threat may be brought in by fudge packing beetles!
What is to preclude this from becoming a tick borne disease?
More free benefits from the illegal alien invasion.
Another step toward population control (if it takes off), and hefty profits for those who find cures or treatment.
Well said Wolfman. Need to keep on educating.
Chagas is transmitted by bugs that excrete while feeding. N. American bugs do not excrete while feeding but there is the possibility that the trypanosome will alter bug behavior - S. American bugs are bolder feeders, prefer the face of humans, and excrete while eating.
Ticks transmit disease by regurgitating into the host’s bloodstream - not much benefit in that for the tick - benefit for the bacteria or protozoa.
Toxoplasmosis changes mouse behavior and quite possibly human behavior and there are a number of weird infections that completely override insect behavior.
All that said, since new infections are decreasing even in the tropics and are associated with thatched roofs and dirt floors, there’s not much likelihood of Chagas becoming a major concern here except for already infected immigrants.
The disease - once largely contained to Latin America - has spread into the U.S due to increases in travel and immigration.
Much of what is reported in these 2 paragraphs are in error. The first sentence, above, is merely misleading. The vector is the "kissing bug", Triatoma. The protozoa is released into the blood stream, not the triatoma (a true 'bug",Order Hemiptera).
Triatoma is not a beetle. The beetle is a member of the Order Coleoptera. The triatoma is a member of the Order Hemiptera. Triatoma is not closely related to the Tsetse fly. The Tsetse fly is a member of the Order Diptera.
These parasitic organisms are Tripanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease, in the Americas) and Tripansoma gambiensis (African Sleeping Sickness, African).
Man, I just got addicted to this Mexican fruit juice, it’s 35% juice, not like the American crap that is usually no more than 5%. Think I am going to get “chagas” now?
Yick. I didn't know that. Thoroughly nasty disease. Isn't that what some people think killed Darwin?
Fascinating. I thought that all those little black blobs around a tick bite on my dog they were tick poop. So are they dried regurgitated blood?
I've never even heard of someone having the disease. Anecdotal, to be sure, but troubling.
Considering ticks are found where the disease exists, but haven't become a vector, I'd say some sort of basic incompatibility of the protozooan with the tick's digestive system that isn't present in the kissing bug's digestive system.
ha ha ha ha
;-)
Think "reserve currency." Subsidized trade is a license to print more money.
NO WAIT THAT ACTUALLY WORKS lets try water and mr bubble !
it killed him...47 years later.
I have spent my life (since puberty) developing a special type of acupuncture that would work very well on any of these girls......
Thanks for the ping.
Chagas Disease: “The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas”
There are additional parallels. Chagas disease has emerged as an important blood transfusion–related risk throughout the Americas just as HIV/AIDS did in the early 1980s, prior to the implementation of widespread blood screening and testing [18]–[20]. Moreover, mother-to-child transmission leading to congenital Chagas disease and other adverse neonatal outcomes is increasingly recognized [21]–[24] (Table 2). Both congenital Chagas disease and HIV/AIDS have a recognized clinical syndrome [21], [25], with adverse birth outcomes as well as deleterious maternal effects in pregnancy [22], [23], [26]. During pregnancy, the rate of vertical transmission of T. cruzi infection is approximately 5% (although some investigators believe the rate could be as high as 10%), whereas it is 15%–40% for untreated HIV/AIDS [27] and 1%–2% for mothers who receive antiretroviral therapy [28]. The Pan American Health Organization estimates that there are over 14,000 cases of congenital Chagas disease in Latin America [29], with 2,000 newborns infected annually in North America alone [24], compared to 36,000 pediatric HIV/AIDS cases in Latin America [15].FReepmail me if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.
The Daily Mail website crashed on me twice, so I gave up on it, but the titles look awfully similar.
You lucked out...
You are so correct! It looks like another attempt to draw attention from the fact that AIDS is behaviorally spread. In the case of AIDS, if you avoid the risky behavior, you will avoid the disease. An arthropod-borne disease is much harder to avoid if you live in an endemic area. I give blood regularly and they do ask if you have ever had Chaga’s disease as a part of the medical history, but the chances of infection by receiving blood from an infected donor is much less than acquiring the infection from the bite of the “kissing bug”.
You are so correct! It looks like another attempt to draw attention from the fact that AIDS is behaviorally spread. In the case of AIDS, if you avoid the risky behavior, you will avoid the disease. An arthropod-borne disease is much harder to avoid if you live in an endemic area. I give blood regularly and they do ask if you have ever had Chaga’s disease as a part of the medical history, but the chances of infection by receiving blood from an infected donor is much less than acquiring the infection from the bite of the “kissing bug”.
when a country is invaded literally by 3rd world people..
Whaddya expect?
That is one regal retinue there!
That’s what you think. Bugs can travel in/on anything. Airline Luggage, Wheels on a plane a bus or car, in a vehicle, in/or on a person.
Thy didn’t die this year and we have got Brazilians and central Americans by the boatload, good luck with loving New England!
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