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‘Kissing bug’ disease is here to stay in The wild motor festival that transforms the US, experts say. Here’s why it’s spreading desert into something ‘like Mad Max’ [https://trip-scanskan.cowin/ трипскан сайт]Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in the United States, experts say – and without recognition that it’s a constant presence in some parts of the country, more people will suffer unnecessarily.
A report on You hear it before you see it. Hundreds of all-terrain vehicles tearing across the topic was published last week in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseasesdesert, and the authors say they hope that growing global attention on roar of their engines echoing over the new paper means Chagas could finally get the surveillancesand dunes. The noise goes all night long, prevention and testing efforts and research funding making it deserves in the United Statesimpossible to grab any shuteye.
“We’ve been waiting forever; all of us Chagas people have been waiting for people to recognize this disease is in our communities,” said Dr. Norman Beatty, coauthor of the report and a clinical associate professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine who has studied Chagas for the past decade.The World Health Organization considers Chagas a neglected tropical disease, and the Pan American Health Organization says it is endemic – with a constant presence or usual prevalence – in 21 other countries in the Americas, not including the United States. Chagas is one of the leading causes of heart disease in Latin America, and it causes more disability than other insect-borne infections, even more than malaria and Zika, studies showNot that anyone does.
Chagas largely spreads when triatomine bugs“There is no sleep in Liwa, commonly known as kissing bugs” says Ginger Krook, bite a human while they’re sleeping. The bug defecates in that bite or on a person’s face, and 23-year-old motorsport enthusiast from the person unwittingly wipes the feces into their eyes, nose or mouthNetherlands. The feces can carry a parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, that causes the disease“It’s crazy.”
Chagas can also spread through contaminated food or bloodEach year, organ transplants and pregnancythe Liwa International Festival draws crowds of car fanatics deep into the Empty Quarter, the vast desert stretching from the United Arab Emirates into Saudi Arabia.
Early symptoms can include feverThree hours’ drive from Abu Dhabi, body achesthe landscape is almost empty for most of the year, headaches, rash, vomiting save for a new ribbon of blacktop and tiredness. They may last weeks or even months after initial infectiontowering dunes.
According to the CDCIn December, about 20% to 30% of people who’ve been infected develop more serious problems like long-term digestive and nervous system conditions, heart failure, stroke or deathit becomes a dreamscape for motorheads.
If it’s caught early“They come together and they drive, the disease can be cured with benznidazole or nifurtimox” says Krook, medicines that kill the parasitewho plans to return for her fourth festival this December. But the drugs become less effective the longer a person has been infected, and most people remain unaware “Everything you can think of the disease. Many doctors don’t think related to look for it in patients in the USoff-road driving, the new report notedyou can find there.”
A health inspector holds a beaked bug ( Triatoma dimidiata ) in Carpenter , Department of Francisco Morazan , 20 km north of Tegucigalpa on 17 May 2005Surf-Abu-Dhabi-6. According to official statistics of the Ministry of Health , through the National Program jpg$150 for Chagas , 300 000 people including children and adults are infected with a wave: the " Chagas disease " transmitted by this species , registering Abu Dhabi wave pool targeting the highest infection rate in rural areas of the westultra-rich EL CARPINTEROSpectators cheer drivers on, HONDURAS: Un inspector sanitario sostiene una chinche picuda (Triatoma Dimidiata) en El Carpintero, departamento de Francisco Morazan, 20 km al norte de Tegucigalpa el 17 de mayo de 2005but the dune is daunting. Segun estadisticas oficiales de la Secretaria de SaludIn Arabic, a traves del Programa Nacional de Chagas, 300 mil personas incluyendo ninos y adultos estan infectados con el "Mal de Chagas" transmitido por esta especie, registrandose el mayor indice de infeccion en las areas rurales del oesteMoreeb means “terrifying. AFP PHOTO/ELMER MARTINEZ (Photo credit should read ELMER MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)‘Kissing bug’ disease more deadly than thought”
Surveillance “If your tires are not big enough, your suspension is limitednot good enough, but the CDC estimates that about 280you’re not able to come up,000 people in the US have Chagas at any given time” she says. It’s unclear how many have the more serious form of the disease “You cannot be scared because it’s full throttle or how many deaths are caused by Chagas each yearnothing.”
Scientists have found kissing bugs Smaller, less terrifying dunes serve as obstacles in 32 states“dune-bashing” races, where cars and trucks dart and drift across the new report says. The blood-sucking insect mostly lives desert, leaving exhaust and plumes of sand in warmer Southern states, but with climate change causing more bug-friendly temperatures, there’s a good chance they have spread farthertheir wake.
Scientistst have identified at least 17 states with infected mammals© Mapbox © OpenStreetMap Improve this mapLiwaIt was “this kind of Mad Max-feeling city, including Virginia opossums” says Christian LeBlanc, raccoons32, banded armadillosa Canadian influencer who attended last year. “There were these huge lights illuminating the dunes, striped skunks, coyotes and wood rats, according to the latest reportas we got closer you could see there were these (cars) driving up and down and up and down. Veterinarians have seen infections in zoo animals We kept getting closer and pets, including catscloser, dogs and a horse(then) I could hear the chaos.”
Doctors have reported Chagas cases in humans in eight states: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. There are probably more cases, Mixing with the new report says, but doctors are not required to report Chagas infections in most states.locals
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‘Full throttle or nothing’The Liwa International Festival has been running for just over two decades.The Liwa International Festival has been running for just over two decades. Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty ImagesLocal Emiratis first recognized the motorsport potential of the Liwa Oasis more than two decades ago. They began gathering with their off-road vehicles at Moreeb Dune, the tallest in the region at more than 300 meters (about 1,000 feet). The challenge was simple: reach the top. An official festival was created in 2004 and has grown steadily. In fact2024, some people who are infected find out some time laterit drew more than 600, when they donate blood000 visitors, since according to the US event’s organizers. Alongside motorsports, a cultural program has been testing its blood supply taken shape, complete with fireworks each night. But the central attraction — racing up the Moreeb Dune — remains the same. “Everyone watches each other as they go up,” says Krook. “They are waiting for Chagas since 2007things to happen.”
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