sleeping pets. The bugs emerge while the inhabitants are sleeping “Due to these bugs tend to feed on people faces”. "Kissing bugs are also known as triatomine bugs”. These bugs defecate on the person later they bite and ingest blood. If Trypanosome cruzi parasites in the bug feces enter the body through mucous membranes or breaks in the skin that person can get infected. The unexpectedly sleeping person may accidentally scratch or rub the feces into the bite wound, eyes, or mouth. Kissing bugs are
Chagas Disease, Adult Chagas disease is an infection caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Another name for this infection is American trypanosomiasis. Chagas disease has two phases. In the initial (acute) phase of infection, you may or may not have symptoms. If the acute phase is not treated, the symptoms may go away, but the infection will not. If the infection has not gone away, it becomes a chronic infection. A chronic infection takes years to develop. Chagas disease can be
I. A coma’s technical name is “Trypanosomiasis.” Many people think the person is asleep, but the person is actually in a deep state of unconsciousness. It happens worldwide, but mostly in Africa. There are about 50,000-70,000 cases a year. When a person is in a coma, they are unresponsive since they are unconscious. They also do not respond to their environment. First recognized two centuries ago, comas can be deadly because of damage to the brainstem. II. Comas are caused by various reasons, like
Human African Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness is a highly prevalent parasitic disease in sub-Saharan Africa. The organism responsible for this infectious disease is the Trypanosoma brucei, which claims hold to humans and other animals, as its primary hosts. Since Trypanosoma brucei are parasitic, their environment is their host. The most common carrier is the African native tsetse fly, which is abundant in western and central regions of the continent (Kagbadouno et al. 2012)
I. General Description Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan parasite, causes Chagas disease, a zoonotic disease that can be transmitted to humans by blood-sucking triatomine bugs (also known as the kissing bug because it bites on the face). Chagas disease is named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered the
Parasite (s) Introduction: A parasite is an organism which lives on/in a host organism and gets its food and makes its living at the host’s expense. Parasites can cause disease in humans and animals. Some parasitic diseases are easily treated while treating others is not that easy. In regard to the size, parasites range from one-celled microscopic organisms (protozoa) to quite large organisms which could be seen by naked eye (worms). Mode of infection: The infection with parasitic diseases varies
Guinea Worm This disease may be on the brink of being eradicated entirely but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the grossest things that anyone has ever seen. The parasite enters the body via unsafe drinking water. When people drink water infected with water fleas that have have been hosting the larvae of the parasite. There are no symptoms, to begin with, but about one year later, blisters on the feet or legs begin to develop and then the adult fully developed worm crawls out of the host