Posted: 5/31/2012 8:39:27 AM EDT
We are all going to die  Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it "the new AIDS of the Americas." More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States. |
The rest of the correlation is journalistic BS
Not to be confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaga_mushroom. 
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Laugh all you want. I got bit by one of the 1st instar phase juvenile wheel bugs a few years ago. I ended up getting tested for chagas a few weeks later. The bad thing is the test does not always catch it and one form of the disease lays dormant for years before it kills. Yes, it does bother me.
I hate the damn bugs and kill with fire when I find them. 
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Laugh all you want. I got bit by one of the 1st instar phase juvenile wheel bugs a few years ago. I ended up getting tested for chagas a few weeks later. The bad thing is the test does not always catch it and one form of the disease lays dormant for years before it kills. Yes, it does bother me. I hate the damn bugs and kill with fire when I find them.
They have them in VA?! 
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Laugh all you want. I got bit by one of the 1st instar phase juvenile wheel bugs a few years ago. I ended up getting tested for chagas a few weeks later. The bad thing is the test does not always catch it and one form of the disease lays dormant for years before it kills. Yes, it does bother me. I hate the damn bugs and kill with fire when I find them.
They have them in VA?!
My office was in the front of a warehouse where trucks from Mexico arrived almost daily. The parking area is near the loading dock. At some point one of the bugs hitched a ride up from Mexico and laid eggs. I was walking to my truck for lunch one day, as I got in and put on my seatbelt it felt like someone has driven a nail in my throat. I captured the juvenile that bit me and an adult I found in the same area. They are preserved in bottle of alcohol somewhere in the house. When I went to the doctor, I told him what happened and he did not believe me until I pulled out the bottle to show him. He was dumbfounded when he looked it up in the medical journals and found out I was right on the ID. There are wheel bugs/assassin native to this area. But they are a little different than those invasive species. The doctor ordered the tests and contacted the health department. Nothing else was ever was done about it. Because it was a juvenile it was most likely had never had a blood meal. Hopefully I was its first/last so infection was less likely. I guess we will know in a few years when my heart finally explodes with parasites. Coincidentally we were at the zoo this weekend when the wife said "is there something on my neck". Sure enough one of the adults was on her. It flew away without biting before I could kill it. The distance from the zoo to the place I worked is less than 4 miles. |
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"And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." (Luke 21:11) Let me know when we get to the "fearful sights and great signs" stage. Until then, it's just more of the same old shit that's been going on since the beginning of time. |