Sentences with phrase «kissing bug bites»
A Chagas disease epidemic is not likely in North America, but kissing bug bites do cause severe allergic reactions for some victims
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Although doctors officially have recorded only seven cases of new human infections in North America, a new study found that five of 13 kissing bugs collected from California and Arizona had bitten a human host — and many of the bugs they collected were infected with Chagas.
The disease is spread by triatomines, also called kissing bugs for their tendency to bite on the lips to suck blood.
But getting bitten by a kissing bug isn't the only way to contract the disease.
Unlike mosquitoes that transmit malaria through the bite, kissing bugs drop feces on the subject while filling up with blood.
Unlike mosquitoes and ticks whose bites deliver pathogens in saliva, a kissing bug delivers the Chagas disease parasite through its excrement, which the bug leaves on the host.
[161] This speculation is based on a journal entry written by Darwin, describing he was bitten by the «Kissing Bug» in Mendoza, Argentina in 1835; [162] and based on the constellation of clinical symptoms he exhibited, including cardiac disease which is a hallmark of chronic Chagas disease.
It's carried by so - called «kissing bugs», which bite you round the mouth while you sleep and infects you with the Chagas disease creepy parasite: the American trypanosome.
They're called «kissing bugs» because they «kiss» you with their bite.
They're not called «kissing bugs» because they bite around the mouth.
Although kissing bugs can bite any time of the year, they are most likely to bite in dry months of summer.