Five things apperceive about the
baleful 'kissing bug' and Chages disease
A bug accepted as the “kissing bug” that has the abeyant of overextension a baleful ache has been spotted in California, according to the CDC.The bug’s official name is the triatomine bug and can backpack a bacteria alleged Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease.
Triatoma sanguisuga
You can bolt the ache from the bug, but it’s not easy, the CDC says. The bacteria that causes the ache is in the bug’s feces, which it leaves on or abreast a being if it’s agriculture on the person’s claret – about if they’re asleep. Infection occurs if the being rubs the carrion into the chaw or wound, or their aperture or eyes.
But abundant like mosquitoes and West Nile, not every kissing bug carries Chagas disease, sometimes alleged the “silent killer.”
The bugs are a Latin American import, but they’re in 27 states, abnormally those in the South.
Also alleged apache bugs, cone-nosed bugs, and claret suckers, the bugs can reside indoors, in cracks and holes of abominable housing, or in a array of alfresco settings including:
• Beneath porches
• Between bouldered structures
• Under cement
• In rock, wood, besom piles, or below bark
• In rodent nests or beastly burrows
• In alfresco dog houses or kennels
• In craven coops or houses
Researchers at Texas A &M in College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences are tracking the bug because it bites bodies and animals. There aren’t any vaccines for Chagas ache and alone an beginning analysis for humans.
“If humans see or appear in contact, don’t blow the bug with your hands. Take a account and forward the bug to the laboratory. We can analysis it for infection,” said researcher Sarah Hamer.
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