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Wave of New Diseases Being Brought to America by Insects
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Wave of New Diseases Being Brought to America by Insects
By J. D. Heyes, contributing writer to Natural News
Pandemics like the Ebola virus have made headlines around the world lately, but one medical expert said recently that the bigger threat to health comes from tropical diseases being spread by hordes of insects.
In an interview with Fox News, Dr. Mark Siegel, professor of medicine at NYU’s Langone Medical Center, said that a few tropical diseases are being spread to the United States at an increasing pace. He also noted that, because they are being spread via insects, it is much more difficult to prevent or control the spread.
“The problem is, local insects are picking up these diseases,” Siegel explained on Fox News’ House Call program. “That’s what I need people out there to know.”
Siegal noted that, as Americans travel to other countries, they are bitten and infected by insects endemic to those regions. Then travelers return to the country and the infection can be spread to local insects.
One of the diseases which the medical expert said he is most concerned about is Chagas disease.
“[Chagas disease] is a big problem in South America and Latin America,” he said, adding that the disease is spread by “the kissing bug,” he said. “The kissing bug literally comes to your face at night and kisses you, and bites you, and it puts” a disease-carrying parasite into the blood stream of the victim.
Much More Likely Than Ebola
While the bug and the disease-causing parasite is endemic to South America, Siegel says it is being spread to the southern U.S. “So it’s only a matter of time before the kissing bug in our states pick it up,” he said. “And, of course, with the border camps there, there’s that issue too. But people bring it in” to the U.S., where he said close to 1 million people have been infected.
A separate report from National Geographic (NG) also warned that tropical diseases are encroaching on the United States, using insects as the disease vector — and they pose a much greater threat to the country than Ebola or similar deadly viruses.
“Ebola isn’t the tropical disease that’s most likely to cause health problems in the United States–not by a long shot,” National Geographic reported online. “A handful of other tropical diseases pose much more realistic threats. And they’re spread by insects, which can’t be quarantined.”
The Chagas parasite is known as Trypanosoma cruzi, and it is carried in the feces of the kissing bug. It usually enters a host via bites or by the eyes and mouth.
In addition, the parasite can be spread in more common ways, like from a mother to a child, or through contaminated blood or organ donations (though the U.S. blood supply has been screened for T. cruzi since 2007, National Geographic noted)….more here
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