Chagas Disease and Kissing Bugs

Kim Moon is back to discuss worms and other intestinal parasites. In wellness circles they are the cause of almost all your non-descript symptoms. But parasites are a real problem and global warming means these once tropical diseases are coming to a city near you.

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References:

Why Does Everyone Think They Have Parasitic Worms?

Soil-transmitted helminth infections

The deadliest parasites in the world: 10 terrifying creatures you will want to avoid

Neglected tropical diseases -- GLOBAL

The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt's Wastewater Crisis | The New Yorker

There was a deal to fix this Alabama community's raw sewage crisis. Trump tore it up over DEI

Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis).

Chagas disease - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

Kissing Bug.

Dracunculiasis (Guinea-worm disease)

Guinea Worm Disease Eradication Program

Removing Giardia Cysts from Drinking Water

U.S. Drinking-Water Systems Still Haven't Defeated This Nasty Parasite | Scientific American

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80p81lvx0eo

Health warning following rise in Cryptosporidiosis notifications

Health officials investigating outbreak linked to raw milk

Foodborne illness outbreaks linked to unpasteurised milk and relationship to changes in state laws – United States, 1998–2018 - PMC

Echinococcus multilocularis - Public Health Ontario

Human echinococcosis incidence in Canada, 2000–2020, CCDR 50(9)

Echinococcosis

Parasite threat to pets and people on the rise in Western Canada | News | University of Calgary