Monday, 17 November 2014

Penn Study Shows Bed Bugs Can Transmit Parasite that Causes Chagas Disease

Penn Study Shows Bed Bugs Can Transmit Parasite that Causes Chagas Disease


The bed bug may be just as dangerous as its sinister cousin, the triatomine, or kissing bug. A new study from Penn Medicine researchers in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics demonstrated that bed bugs, like the triatomines, can transmit Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, one of the most prevalent and deadly diseases in the Americas.

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