That is it.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Tim Hughes wrote:
> That sounds like Chagas disease. Which can be very debilitating but
> first symptoms after about
> 10-20 years, but does not kill for many years ,shortens life
> expectancy. It causes damage to the
> heart I believe. An orphan disease because it affects mainly third
> world poor people in central
> and South America so no market for drug/vacine companies.
> Occasionally found in US in rural South.
> The tick that causes it typically lives in the thatch roofing where
> it occurs. Common cause of
> infection is rubbing your eyes after having your hands be
> contaminated by bug fecaes.
> Tim Hughes
>
> --- Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> That reminded me of my tour in Costa Rica when we were getting a
>> lecture on the local insects by a biologist at the butterfly farm. He
>> told us about a local bug bites, then defecates into the wound,
>> passing on an incurable disease that is fatal. He explained that the
>> other unusual thing about it is that the incubation period for the
>> disease is 20 years. He gazed slowly around the room at our group and
>> said, "On second thought none of you have anything to worry about."
>>
>
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