Has anyone mentioned this to Jim Conrad? He spent so much time living in the
tropics, I wonder if he's encountered kissing bugs in any of his "grass
shacks." If anyone, he would be very vulnerable to Chagas. Probably wouldn't
hurt to ask.
Louise
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 21:01:34 -0600
From: lmcn...@austin.rr.com
To: linda.k.pa...@gmail.com
CC: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Kissy Kissy Pooh-Pooh
On 12/6/2012 8:11 PM, Linda Palit
wrote: Seen lots of these bugs. In my SA house and all over south
Texas they ate around. It is a dangerous world.
Yeah Linda, I have too, even growing up in north central Texas
(Brownwood). But I never found the ones up here crawling on me at
night or biting me, nor saw them commonly in caves. And the ones
in Central America are on steroids compared to those up here in
terms of size and blood lust. It's not just the bugs you see, but
the parasites you don't see. According to what Barb initially
told me, and what the CDC site says right now: ". . .the parasite
Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to animals and
people by insect vectors and is found only in the Americas
(mainly, in rural areas of Latin America where poverty is
widespread). Yeah, "it is a dangerous world". You can get
"pooh-poohed" anywhere, anytime! Ha, gotcha!
LowGun
