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	<title>All About Chagas Disease</title>
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		<title>How can I reduce my family&#8217;s risk for becoming infected with Chagas&#8217; disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. The first step towards reducing your risk of acquiring the disease is through knowledge.  Educating yourself and your family about the following three areas may help you to reduce your risk of acquiring the disease.
A. Identification of the insect: see the page on Kissing Bug photos: View Kissing Bug Photos  and make sure all members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How is Chagas&#8217; Disease Spread?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People may become infected with Chagas' Disease in several ways:
 1. Through the bite of a blood sucking insect, called the Reduviid, Triatomine bugs, or "kissing bugs", approximately 1 inch in size that deposits feces onto the skin of it's victim after feeding on the blood of the unsuspecting person or animal.  The insect's bite is painless, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Chagas Disease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Chagas' Disease is a deadly parasitic disease.  Much of the literature written prior to 2005 or 2006 states that Chagas' is primarily a concern for inhabitants of Central and South American Countries and Mexico.  In recent years however, there has been significant population migration of those from endemic countries into the United States and Europe. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of Kissing Bugs &#8211; Carrier of the Chagas&#8217; Disease Parasite</title>
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Kissing bugs may also be called "bloodsuckers, "conenose bugs", assassin bugs, or "vinchuca". 
Order: Hemiptera, family: Reduviidae.  
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		<title>Chagas Disease in Organ Transplant Recipients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials confirm 3 Cases of Chagas Disease - Trypansoma cruzi (T.cruzi)  in Organ Transplant Recipients
In a March 15, 2002 report from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) there was a report of a 37 year old woman dying approximately 7 months after receiving kidney and pancreas organ transplants from a cadaver.  The woman had transplant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treatment for Chagas&#8217; Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are currently two drugs, nifurtimox and benznidazole which may be helpful in the acute stages of the infection. Both medications, however, have serious side effects limiting their use. Once the disease progresses to the chronic stage there is no known treatment.
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		<title>Symptoms of Chagas&#8217; Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chagas disease has two stages: acute and chronic.
 Symptoms in the acute phase may only occur in about 1% of Chagas cases, and will generally appear approximately one to two weeks following infection.
Acute Stage Symptoms:

fever
facial swelling or swelling around the site of the bite
enlarged and painful lymph glands and fatigue
In infants or young children severe brain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chagas Disease &#8211; the  Killer Disease &#8211; Should you Learn More?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fast Facts:  
Chagas Disease affects approximately 20 million worldwide, killing 50,000 each year, yet is practically unknown to most in the general public in the US.
 If infected, you may not even know initially you have Chagas disease. It can slowly destroy your internal organs, and if you do not die from the acute stage, can cause death [...]]]></description>
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