What is the Chagas parasitic disease and how does it impact health?

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What is the Chagas parasitic disease and how does it impact health?   Spread by “kissing bugs,” the disease can cause serious heart problems in humans and dogs, though many cases show few symptoms.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/10/what-is-the-chagas-parasitic-disease-and-how-does-it-impact-health  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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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.

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