Kissing Bugs Could Kiss Off Your Life and they are spreading through the USA. They carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease. If not prevented or treated immediately, it is incurable. #kissingbugs #chagas #parasite #trypanosomiasis #triatomine

Meanwhile, people are focused on everything but disease control. 😔Right now, scientists should be given research money for studying the #kissingbugs condition.

Kissing Bug Disease: Rising Threat of Chagas in the US, CDC Reports Kissing bugs, blood-sucking insects that transmit the deadly Chagas disease, have now spread across 32 states in the U.S., with the CDC warning that hundreds of thousands of Americans may be…

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A dangerous parasite carried by “kissing bugs” has now been detected in 32 US states, raising concern that Chagas disease may be turning endemic.

#ChagasDisease #KissingBugs #USHealth #CDC #GlobalHealth

Infographic describing the appearance of the eastern condone kissing bug, which does not occur in Wisconsin or the Upper Midwest, and a common look-alike—the western conifer seed bug.

Chagas disease and kissing bugs have been in the news lately. I'll just leave this here:

#chagasdisease #kissingbugs

Chagas Disease Spreads via Kissing Bugs in 32 U.S. States, CDC Warns

The CDC reports Chagas disease, spread by kissing bugs, is now present in 32 U.S. states, with hundreds of thousands possibly infected and only 29 confirmed cases from 2000‑2018. getnews.me/chagas-disease-spreads-v... #chagas #kissingbugs

Kissing Bugs Are Spreading Chagas Disease, Which Can Cause Major Heart Problems  Learn how kissing bugs in the U.S. have been spreading a parasitic disease that can cause major heart problems years after infection.

Kissing Bugs Are Spreading Chagas Disease, Which Can Cause Major Heart Problems  #Science #HealthandMedicine #InfectiousDiseases #ChagasDisease #PublicHealth #KissingBugs

#Florida: Conditions exist for indigenous #Tcruzi transmission, according to study #Chagas #kissingbugs #parasites #FloridaChagas
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Kissing Bugs Are Creeping Into Florida Homes—and They're Carrying a Dangerous Parasite A third of kissing bugs collected across the state carried Trypanosoma cruzi, new research finds.

#KissingBugs 🐜 Are Creeping Into #Florida Homes 🏡 and They’re Carrying a Dangerous Parasite 🦠 #FYI #bugs

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We had #KissingBugs, the vector, in Texas and so it *could* become endemic someday. Then we had more kissing bugs. Then we had a few locally transmitted #leishmaniasis cases. Then more. Now? Asterisk fulfilled. #Leishmania is a pathogen considered endemic to the United States.

Do you know your #kissingbugs? I participated in a study trying to understand cultural knowledge, fact from fiction. I got some correct. Missed all the subadults. Leaf cutter, stink, and box elder didn’t fool me.