The disease of kissing a bug permanently moved to the United States

Dangerous infection, sometimes fatal, spread by kissing insects regularly inside America. In a modern sheet, the researchers claim that Shagas is settler for parts of the southern United States and may be here to survive.

Scientists in Florida, Texas and California served in a paper Published Last month in the magazine arising from infectious diseases. Quoting evidence of human beings, infected animals, and kissing, they argue that Shagas has created a continuous presence in the country, albeit at low levels. They say that it is properly aware that Shagas is a settler will allow us to better combat infectious disease, which can cause chronic heart problems if they are left without treatment.

Kissing disease

Shagas A result of the parasite Tribanosoma CruzeAnd the infection is spread by different types of kissing bugs, or Triatomine. As their title suggests, kissing insects is fed by absorbing blood around the host’s mouth (or sometimes eyes). Insects usually affect people through a tube leaving behind a bite wound.

People with a parasite first can experience an acute phase of influenza -like diseases, after which the infection enters a chronic stage if left without treatment. Most people avoid any symptoms in any of the stages, but up to a third of the people with chronic chasia disease will eventually face serious health problems, such as the heart and the enlarged colon. People can also die from heart failure or sudden heart attack as a result of infection. It may take years and even decades until these chronic symptoms appear.

About 8 million people worldwide are believed to have Chagas, including 280,000 in the United States. Most of these American cases were arrested elsewhere, especially in parts of Central and South America T. Cruzic It is a trading locally. But researchers provide evidence that the parasite may have made a comfortable house in the southern United States as well.

Why should Chagas be seen as a settler

For beginners, there are likely to be locally obtained from Shagas documented in at least eight states, including Texas, California and Florida. These cases are usually found in people who do not have a relevant travel date or another risk factor to pick up the parasite outside the region.

In addition, researchers note that the southern US countries are known for the existence of many types of errors that can theoretically carry and transfer T. Cruzic The parasite, including the types that will invade human housing regularly.

Studies have discovered the parasite circulating between the kissing groups of local errors. Last July, for example, researchers Find A third of kissing errors collected in Florida carried the parasite. The parasite was also Usually found In local wildlife, captive animals and pets (dogs in particular), their tank is provided to stay in the environment.

All these bits of data together indicate one conclusion. “T. Cruzic The researchers wrote that the environmental conditions that maintain their transition cycles occur naturally in the southern half of the United States.

Low -level but continuous threat

The researchers say the only silver lining is that Shagas is likely to be incomplete in the southern United States, which means that it is only at low levels. But as you stay now, we are largely fighting blind against him.

The researchers note that Chagas disease in people is not a state of advertising at the national level, so doctors in most places are not obligated to report cases to their health departments, as researchers note. It can be notified in some of the states where local situations were found, but not everything (in California, only two provinces require a notification).

The researchers say that Shagas may not be a big problem in the United States as it is in other parts of the Americas, as its classification as a settlement will allow scientists to track their distribution and group better. Improving awareness of the disease will also make it easy for people with the care they need in time before the infection turns into something more dangerous and may threaten life.