Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This list is beginning to sound like the review course for my Infectious Diseases boards that I took a few years back..... Nevertheless, I read a few months back that the disease is beginning to appear sporadically in south Texas as a locally acquired disease and may be spreading slowly north. Ted- if you hang around another 50-75 years, you may get to see it up your way. Allen >Marty Deveney described so eleoquently: >>>El Corcho - parasites again! >> >chagas bug, a parasite which causes a fatal heart disease. >> > The bug doesn't cause the disease, it merely vectors it. >>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/factsht_chagas_diseas >e.htm >> >> The critical life cycle step is the bug to human phase, which is >accomplished by stercorarian transmission: the Chagas disease-infected bug >bites you and then defecates. The bug faeces contains the infective stage >of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent. Of course the bug bite itches, >so the person scratches. The bug faeces and infective stages get rubbed >into the bite, an eye, or other mucus membrane and hey presto - another case >of Chagas disease. >> >> The long-term cardiac complications occur in about 30% of infections. >Another unfortunate long-term effect is megacolon. As to what that means, >imagine for yourself.<<<< > >Jeeeeessh Marty, >thanks old buddy you spoiled my supper! ;-) >ted > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html