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Parasite from HELL


Saturday, 08 October 2011 01:14 | Last Updated on Saturday, 08 October 2011 01:16 | | |

Reported by: Lisa Leigh Kelly
Thursday, October 06 2011


A deadly parasite is moving into Central Texas. It is carried by the kissing bug, also called the "assassin" bug, because it is so deadly. The scientific name for the bug is Triatomine.




And it can be as close as your backyard.
The kissing bug is the vector -- or carrier -- for protozoa Trypansoma cruzi. It's a parasite that lives in the gut of the bug and is disseminated through its feces.
When the feces get into the bloodstream of humans, it causes Chagas disease, which ultimately can cause heart failure.
Dr. Sahotra Sarkar is a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas. He has been studying Chagas disease since 2006. He wrote a paper published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
"The insects like to feed on people when they're asleep and tend to bite your lips," said Sarkar. "That's how the bug got its name. But we've seen bites on almost every part of the human body."
Sarkar's team started off studying Chagas disease in Mexico. Each year Chagas disease kills more than 50,000 people in Central and South America.
But recently Sarkar has been alarmed at the overwhelming numbers of the parasite they are finding in Texas.
Eleven counties in South Texas are at highest risk. But this past year, more than half of the bugs collected in Central Texas were found to carry the deadly parasite.
"Three of the species have been found in Travis County," said Sarkar.
"You are not likely to get a lot of them in the middle of the city, but by the time you get to the suburbs and you have areas where there's a fair amount of wood, that's where you'll see them," said Sarkar.
The blood-sucking insect is nocturnal, biting and feeding on animals and humans at night. Bats are one of their favorite food sources.
"As the bug is biting you, slowly as your blood is going into it, the feces get moved out of the body, and the feces are what carries the parasite," said Sarkar.
If the parasitic feces get into your bloodstream, it can bring on flu-like symptoms, with aches and fever.
But after the symptoms have dissipated, the parasite lives on, burrowing into the heart muscle, sometimes for decades until it causes cardiac arrest.
People can be infected for years and not even know it.
"I suspect there are more people than we think who are walking around who don't know they have it," said Sarkar.
Chagas disease can also infect and kill household pets, if they're bitten.
A simple blood test can show if you have Chagas disease, but there is no cure.
It is expected the Texas Health Department will require doctors to report it by 2012.


http://parasitologyblog.com/news/a-d...-central-texas

[Petwrenny]

A simple blood test can show if you have Chagas disease, but there is no cure.
It is expected the Texas Health Department will require doctors to report it by 2012 TPTB can have a field day fear mongering this
and of course, call for more society changes/controls to fight this Chagas disease

[L8fGLM4d]

i thought this thread was going to be about mexicans.

[prpaims]

i thought this thread was going to be about mexicans.

i would say there's already a deadly parasite in Central Texas.

try emailing with the Houston ADL B'Nai B'rith Rabbi's and ask them why they engage in Holocaust denial, relative to the Palestinians.

one of them told me, "don't you get it ? we only worry about racism against Jews !"

i forgot to tell him that's not racism - it's self-defense.


it was also a Houston ADL woman rabbi who reported one of the Israel Did 9-11 websites to the Houston police.

[janeloveslifenow]

Amazing to watch the lengths big pharma goes to through their propaganda organs in government. The "simple blood test" must be a new product to Beta test in the marketplace before it goes mainstream behind the latest fear-mongering. I'll bet the bugs have beards, 72 helper bugs, and get put on the no fly list. We are saved again by our brave protectors.

[TodeImmabbedo]

i thought this thread was going to be about mexicans.

It IS about messkins...how do you think the bug got into the states??

[ballerturfali]

Just one of the many 'benefits' of immigration.

[Adiamant]

Another 'success' of globalization.

[Roneyslelry]

have loaned out my vitamin C book, but I would venture that liposomal vitamin C or I.V. vitamin c would cure this (seriously)

I.V. vitamin C (or liposomal) pretty well takes care of malaria, and malaria is one of those "you get it, and you got it the rest of your life"

even had limited success with sickle cell anemia, a gentic issue.... hard to believe on that one

[WrinnaArraple]

Thats what open boarders get you...

effing zionist bastards destroying us from within

[Yartonbler]

i thought this thread was going to be about mexicans.

..is there a difference?? anyway, yet ANOTHER plague willfuly imported from a 3rd world shithole!

[jurhoonee]

Everyone in Texas; line up for your mandatory Triatomine vaccinations, or we'll bring in the military with German sheppards.

[Plaumpholavup]

Quarantine Texas Now!