Another Fatal Disease Brought in by Illegals on Southern Border-Called the New 'Aids'

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‘Kissing bug’ disease infects OVER 300,000 people in the US…most of whom don’t know they have the parasite referred to as ‘the new AIDS’.

• Over 300,000 Americans have already been infected with the potentially fatal ‘kissing bug disease’ called Chagas.
• Chagas is being called the new AIDS because of its asymptomatic beginnings that can turn to a fatal end if the disease progresses
• Many doctors aren’t aware of the prevalence of Chagas and aren’t testing people for the disease  

 

• • Over 300,000 Americans have already been infected with the potentially fatal ‘kissing bug disease’ called Chagas but U.S. healthcare workers lack of knowledge about the illness is letting many cases of the parasite unnoticed. Some doctors are calling it the ‘new AIDS’ because of the way it develops.

Researchers who gathered on Tuesday at the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in New Orleans said that if caught early the disease can be cured however sometimes the disease can be asymptomatic and there is a dearth in medication for the condition.

The CDC reports that the initial symptoms of the disease caused by a parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, which is spread through the feces of kissing bugs includes fever, fatigue, body aches, rash, diarrhea and vomiting. One of the first visual signs can be a skin lesion or a purplish swelling of the lid of one eye.

The disease can develop in the body causing eventual heart failure and other deadly complications that by the time they are realized cannot be helped with medicine.

Symptoms: One of the  first visible signs can be a skin lesion or a purplish swelling of the lids of one eye

Chagas is being called the new AIDS because of its asymptomatic beginnings that can turn to a fatalend if the disease progresses. 
 

The CDC has said that they believe most of the people infected with Chagas got the parasite in Mexico or South America before coming to the U.S.

The Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved two medicines called nifurtimox and benznidazole that are currently used to treat.

The CDC only makes the drugs available when no alternatives exist.

‘The disease can be fatal if not treated,’ said Melissa Nolan Garcia, a research associate at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and co-author of a separate study on Chagas disease in Texas published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on Tuesday.

‘You are normally asymptomatic until disease has progressed at which time treatment is not helpful. ‘We call this the silent disease,‘ Garcia said.

‘The concerning thing is that majority of the patients [I spoke to] are going to physicians, and the physicians are telling them, ‘No you don’t have the disease,’ she said.

From the CDC website:

“What is Chagas disease? Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to animals and people by insect vectors that are found only in the Americas (mainly, in rural areas of Latin America where poverty is widespread). Chagas disease (T. cruziinfection) is also referred to as American trypanosomiasis.

 

Welcome to the new America, where Obama has effectively imported rare and deadly diseases from third world Central American countries to ours. We have to seal the borders immediately and get him out of office before he gets us all killed.

It is estimated that as many as 8 million people in Mexico, Central America, and South America have Chagas disease, most of whom do not know they are infected. If untreated, infection is lifelong and can be life threatening.