According to recent studies, a parasitic disease called Chagas have in common with the early spread of HIV. Similar to AIDS, Chagas is hard to detect and can be years until symptoms appear.
According to the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Chagas disease will lead to heart or swelling. If it is severe, both these organs can rupture and cause sudden death.
Triatoma infestans is a predator who suck the blood of mammals night when they are asleep. Length is about 2.5 cm. A proboscis (slender, needle-like projections) extends from the anterior head is used to pierce the skin and suck blood - vampire bug.
Triatoma males larger than females. Its wings are thin, transparent, and cover the top of the stomach. Only the adult who has wings. This wing is inefficient to fly but effective to slide and move. Triatomines prefer to nest in the roof and ceiling. Triatoma has a sensor that directs them to humans and other warm-blooded creatures. Triatoma can move above the 100 meters with the help of air currents that allow them to travel roam from house to house.
Triatoma infestans is a blood sucker. They require a blood meal to pass through five stages to become mature. At least there are about 10 million people worldwide had been infected with this disease, with 10 thousand of them reportedly died in the year 2008.
Now that the disease was initially spread in Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia to Central America, has spread to the United States (US).
For that reason insect Triatome now dubbed as the new AIDS in the Americas. Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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