Chagas: Is tropical disease the new AIDS!

[Narutos pimp]

Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it "the new AIDS of the Americas."
More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States.
The editorial, published by the Public Library of Science's Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV.
"There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living with HIV/AIDS," the authors wrote, "particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."

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[wicked_liz]

Thanks for this, I really needed a new source of paranoia and this seems like eternal doom.

Haha, I really want to be a robot.

The whole "New AIDS!" thing seems unnecessaryily horrifying - since the Chagas disease is spread by a blood parasite with an insect vector. It's not a STD, it's something you can get while sleeping.

But I understand where they drew the analogy, the scientific report isn't inflammotory like the headlines would suggest.

[Narutos pimp]

Yeah I see your point. Bravo!

[zuranda]

Originally Posted by wicked_liz

Thanks for this, I really needed a new source of paranoia and this seems like eternal doom.

Haha, I really want to be a robot.

The whole "New AIDS!" thing seems unnecessaryily horrifying - since the Chagas disease is spread by a blood parasite with an insect vector. It's not a STD, it's something you can get while sleeping.

But I understand where they drew the analogy, the scientific report isn't inflammotory like the headlines would suggest.

Thank you to say that you can caught it while sleeping!