Chagas disease more fatal than thought stat : AJC

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — The nickname given to the insects that spread Chagas disease is somewhat bittersweet: Kissing bugs. "The general assumption is that the non-symptomatic form of Chagas disease is associated with negligible morbidity/mortality for the patients," said Dr. Eric Dumonteil, a Chagas disease researcher at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in the U.S. The parasite then enters the bloodstream and causes Chagas disease, also known as trypanosomiasis. In the positive group, "there was 17 times the risk of cardio disease," Sabino said. The kissing bugs behind the disease have also been reported in 25 U.S. states, with the largest concentration in the South.

'I thought I'd die' alone of dreaded disease

I was lying in bed saying, 'I'm going to die of Lyme disease,' in my bed and 'I hope someone finds me and I'm not here for too long.' " He thought he would die of it after he was bitten by a deer tick, treated, and then bitten again a few years later, he said. "And I really thought this is it, I'm not going to live. (USA TODAY) — One day after his season finale impersonating Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, Alec Baldwin appeared at a California fundraiser and finally talked about his struggle with Lyme disease, the chronic illness he's had for 17 years. I was alone, I wasn't married at the time, I was divorced from my first wife.


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