Are You Worried About Chagas Disease?

No. I'm more likely to get hit by a bus after being knocked off a train by being hit by lightning than I am to get this disease.

Scary

any disease is scary

that'd be my luck

I worry about little, except zombies. I worry about that. ...and burglars.

I am not worried because I would probably be dead by the time I know I have it if it's that deadly (rave me plz)

It's creepy, but where does contact usually occur? This is the first I've heard of it, so I'm not concerned...

I have out lived many. If it is time. It is time. I am ready.

I would like to say I am against anything anyone compares to AIDS. EVER.

But I thank you for the info so I can watch.

The majority of insects on this planet are some form of beetle, so watch out for the juice.

With what I already have my family has to be aware of any diseases no matter how big or how small.
I have all kinds of things wrong since my heart operation as they found I received tainted blood. Of course with the waiver signed obsolves everyone from liability....so much for some of the clauses in obama care.

Guess what - you would have had to sign that waiver regardless of what health plan you had, or what law was on the books. Those waivers are CYA's for the doctor and the hospital, and they have been in play ever since the US became a sue-everyone nation.

This has nothing to do with Obama-care. Also, you should get a good lawyer because you can still sue regardless of the form. If you were indeed infected with tainted blood and have serious problems as a result then you can go after them.

beyond the statute of limitations here in Ohio so I have been told.
Thats alright I am alive and that is all that matters.

Chagas is:
(*) not directly communicable
(*) much easier to control as it is spread mainly by Triatoma bugs
(*) based on the math, 7.7 million of the 8 million are in Latin America (Triatoma bugs aren't found except in Western hemisphere); even the breakdown of the 300,000 in the US--almost certain that a considerable percentage of these will NOT be by transfusion but will be malfeasant aliens from Latin America (who were bitten in native-lands by Triatoma bugs)

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Pa...

don't think its migration up here from the south isn't going to happen. Fire ants and killer bees did it, and so can this disease. we already have 34 species of Triatoma in the U.S....but I guess 300,000 cases isn't enough to "worry about" ? this kills you very slowly by attacking the electrical pulses in your heart and eventually death! The reason none of you uneducated self proclaimed "know-it-alls" haven't heard of this before is because it was a mystery disease up until now. And the media is to busy reporting on the Cardashians, so stop giving the media credit for filtering necessary information to your absent minded brains.It's becomeing a bigger and bigger problem in the border states, so its just a matter of time before you see it in your own backyard. As a matter of fact, I killed 2 kissing bugs just yesterday. Am I gonna give them the benifit of the doubt like you apparently do "based on math"??? HELL NO! (Dawrwin did, and it probably killed him too)

In newsflash!!! Chagas isn't the only disease coming from south of the border....leprosy, whooping cough and a whole host of diseases that we had conquered are making a reappearance thanks to the unlimited rush over our southern border while Obama and the government look the other way... it would certainly be nice if our government for once did what we pay them to do instead of all the other bs we don't want them to do and is ridiculously unneessary - wasting our precious tax $$$ on nonsense and not doing that which we desperately need....

There's a nasty rash of "plata o plomo" disease coming from down there, too. Acute lead poisoning is pretty common around the border.

Hate to burst your hate bubble, but most of the diseases that have reappeared are because of stupid people not getting vaccinated because of religion, or the misconception that they cause autism. It is generally spread right here by our very own Americans. Some of the super bugs are carried into America on flights, not crossing the Mexican Border.

You're a moron! fact of the matter is there a large host of parasites being visited upon the innocent folks of America thanks to the Third World Rush to America thanks to marxist leftists desiring a Global One World... a friends husband almost died from some third world parasite he got thru eating food prepared by immigrants at a Bakers Square... So please don't moralize about that which you know nothing about,,, If people are smart they won't eat at those restaurants and they won't eat food coming from outside of America.

I'm always worried about potential disease, especially those with a high fatality rate that I may be exposed to. I am not one of those people who think "Oh, that could never happen to me". Unlike the majority of those polled in this question, I live in reality.

No pain no strain no I have never heard of this before now.

thats because they just figured out that it was a parasite. It's been around forever(possibly killed Darwin too) and its migrating, so ya maybe you should educate yourself a little more

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Pa...

Thank U, shotgun. I am contacting our local hospital requesting that they make sure that blood is clean around here,

I don't live where it is - or at least I didn't when I learned about it in medical school - but now I have to go look and see if it's moved.

I really don't like anything with more than 4 legs. Gives me the creeps. the trypanosomes are kind of cool, but I certainly wouldn't want to host them.

Please allow me to clarify. Kissing bugs are hosts to the trypanosomes - they are not trypanosomes themselves. The parasite (trypanosome) lives in the kissing bug and you get it from the bug when the bug bites you and (ewe) craps. The trypanosome looks like this:



cool, eh?

and here is the life cycle:


The cool purple picture on the right shows the parasite in a background of red blood cells (yes, I know they're purple) - so you can see it's about the size of a red cell as it sits in its rounded form, but of course it's much thinner.

No

No if it was such a big deal then im pretty sure we would of heard about it on the news and i've never heard of it until this post so its not something im worried about!

thats because they just figured out that it was a parasite. It's been around forever(possibly killed Darwin too) and its migrating. So ya, maybe you should educate yourself a little more

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Pa...

well i was just giving my opinon!isnt tht why they asksd us if we were worried as in if me, myself and I were worried NOT if u thoughi i should be.... yea i read it and its really nothing fo me to stress over:)

Your crazy if you think your news media is letting you in on what you need to know. News & the media are now social change weapons designed to tell you that which the global elites want you to know and believe and ignore that which you need to know for your own survival... you need to get on the internet for your news information

im only 17 anyways my mom and dad keep up with tht and like i said if it REALLY concerned me thn i'd be completely WORRIED!!!! i've looked it up and read all about it im educated about it and honestly its nothing for me to freak the hell out about!!!!!!!!

i say no but i think any disease is worth worrying about to a certain extent and its just common sense to keep yourself safe

Never even heard of this until this post so I doubt it's much to worry about.

What? Me worry? LOL! Never even heard of Chagas disease until just now, and considering that it has affected less than 1/10th of 1% of the people of this country, I'm not especially worried about it either.

I'm always a little worried about disease. I take extra precautions with public facilities, common areas, and frequently touched surfaces because a lot of people are dirty and clueless about it and cross-contaminate everything they touch.

Part of my job happens to include cleaning a public restroom. What worries me is how people will use a public toilet without bothering to make sure it's clean. I'll have that place sparkling at 7am. All kinds of people will come in and use it, and by 11pm I'll not only find all kinds of junk on the bottom of the seat and around the rim but half of it will be old and dry. >< You people are *nasty*, you know who you are.

Whenever I'm forced to use a public restroom as a last resort, I will grab a handful of wet paper towels and a handful of dry paper towels and I will GI the toilet and then gift wrap it before I even think of using it.

One of those bugs was in my house the other day... my dad freaked me out by telling me if I touched it I would die a slow and painful death. Apparently he wasn't exactly lying.

lolz