00:00Chagas disease is a parasitic infection. Pretty much any mammal can get infected,
00:16but we know most about Chagas disease in humans and dogs. And this can cause a pretty devastating
00:22heart disease when the parasite enters the heart tissue and alters the ability of the heart to
00:28function like it normally would. So the way humans typically get infected would be when the kissing
00:38bug comes to take a blood meal, so it's actively feeding on blood, and then it defecates. And in
00:43the fecal material, that's where the infectious stage of the parasite is, and then the parasite
00:49can gain entry to the human. Dogs, we think, in contrast, they get infected when they simply
00:55consume a bug, when they eat a bug that's in the environment.
00:58Yes, Chagas disease is endemic in the United States, but that doesn't mean we should panic. And the level
01:19of locally acquired human disease that we seem to have here in the United States is likely much less
01:27than what's occurring in regions to the south. And a lot of that is because the kissing bugs here in
01:32the United States largely stay outside of the houses.
01:37we see in infinity.
01:42And that's how we prove that barrier in place is shared, which is everywhere else we that are
01:48in the grave. She picks up higher and she checks out of the desert and gives us go sow.
01:53Yeah, everyone on the buried ground is grave, but that's not all that's good...
01:56the natural dosjoins is grave, so why you are andершία' alive.
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