"For years, scientists have known that the sweetly named kissing bug
found throughout South and Central Texas carries the parasite that
causes Chagas disease, a major killer in parts of Latin America," reporter Don Finley wrote."What wasn't known is if those Texas bugs infect people, although they
clearly infect animals — including bomb-sniffing dogs at Joint Base San
Antonio-Lackland and nonhuman primates at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute."
According to the article, "five species of triatoma bugs found around San Antonio carry the
infection, the most common of them Triatoma gerstaeckeri — a flat, dark
brown teardrop-shaped bug with lighter stripes mostly obscured by its
wings. Adults are often more than an inch in length."
2 comments:
Thanks for the heads up.
We'll keep an eye out for these.
Oh boy. Something else to worry about In addition to fleas, ticks, venomous snakes, scorpions and spiders!
Oh, wasps, yellow jackets and Africanized bees!
Lorilee
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