{"id":8901,"date":"2025-07-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2025-07-10T00:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:31:38","slug":"chagas-disease-carrying-kissing-bugs-establish-new-base-in-florida-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/chagas-disease-carrying-kissing-bugs-establish-new-base-in-florida-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chagas disease\u2013carrying kissing bugs establish new base in Florida homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kissing bugs that carry the parasite for <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosntds\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pntd.0012920\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chagas disease<\/a>, a potentially serious tropical condition, have established a base in Florida, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Chagas disease, which is rare in the United States, can cause a brief illness or remain latent for years before causing symptoms. If untreated, it can become a chronic condition that damages the heart, brain, and other organs.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Florida (UF) and Texas A&amp;M University collected more than 300 kissing bugs, or triatomines, from 23 Florida counties\u2014one third of them from people&#8217;s homes\u2014from 2013 to 2023. The team analyzed the bugs&#8217; stomach contents to determine the source of their last meal and whether it contained the <em>Trypanosoma cruzi<\/em> parasite implicated in Chagas disease.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were published this week in <em>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kissing bugs that carry the parasite for <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosntds\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pntd.0012920\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chagas disease<\/a>, a potentially serious tropical condition, have established a base in Florida, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Chagas disease, which is rare in the United States, can cause a brief illness or remain latent for years before causing symptoms. If untreated, it can become a chronic condition that damages the heart, brain, and other organs.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Florida (UF) and Texas A&amp;M University collected more than 300 kissing bugs, or triatomines, from 23 Florida counties\u2014one third of them from people&#8217;s homes\u2014from 2013 to 2023. The team analyzed the bugs&#8217; stomach contents to determine the source of their last meal and whether it contained the <em>Trypanosoma cruzi<\/em> parasite implicated in Chagas disease.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were published this week in <em>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/chagas-disease-carrying-kissing-bugs-establish-new-base-in-florida-homes\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chagas disease\u2013carrying kissing bugs establish new base in Florida homes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1347,539,8,51],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chagas-disease","tag-florida","tag-research","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}