A bloodsucking 'kissing bug' bit a girl in Delaware. The deadly bugs are on the march.
Triatomine, or the kissing bug. By Alex Horton Alex Horton General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 25 at 10:49 AM It’s like “Sleeping Beauty” with a dose nightmare fuel: A flat-bodied, six-legged insect moves toward you as you slumber, bound for the blood that surges around your eyes and lips. It crawls on your face. And the poop it leaves behind can be deadly.
But the insect has marched north, and health officials in Delaware recently confirmed their first run-in with Triatoma sanguisuga — one of 11 species documented in 28 states, according to researchers at Texas A&M University. The bugs have previously carved out territory from California to the Carolinas.
Immediate Chagas infection can cause fever, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and vomiting, researchers have said, but the danger comes from potential chronic infection targeting the heart and gastrointestinal tract. About 30 percent of people who contract Chagas are at risk of heart failure and cardiac arrest, which is a growing concern for the American Heart Association. The disease is an “important cause of heart failure, stroke, arrhythmia, and sudden death,” according to a 2018 statement commissioned by the group.
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