I’m looking for the name of a tropical disease. A bug lives in the water & seeps in through any open oriface, multiplying itself and attacking the immune system. Diagnosed within the first six months you have a 50/50 chance of living with radiation treatments.
Symptoms include but are not limited to: loss of weight, dizziness, fainting spells, loss of desire to eat, unable to withstand any pressure change
I found the answer. It’s called Chagus.
ANother question on the same topic. Does anyone know a fast and accurate way to locate diseases on the net? This one was hard!
Here ya go… http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm
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The protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, causes Chagas’ disease, a zoonotic disease that can be transmitted to humans by blood-sucking reduviid bugs.
Life Cycle:
The reduviid bugs become infected by feeding on human or animal blood that contains circulating parasites. The parasites multiply and differentiate in the insect gut, yielding infective metacyclic trypomastigotes. During a subsequent blood meal on a second vertebrate host, the trypomastigotes are released in the insect feces near the site of the bite wound. The host becomes infected through breaks in the skin, mucous membranes or conjunctivae. Inside the host, the trypomastigotes invade the host cells where they differentiate into intracellular amastigotes. The amastigotes multiply and differentiate into trypomastigotes, which are released into the circulation as blood stream trypomastigotes. The blood stream trypomastigotes do not replicate (differently from the African trypanosomes). Replication resumes only when the parasites enter another cell or are ingested by another vector.
T. cruzi can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, transplacentally, and in laboratory accidents.
Geographic Distribution:
The Americas from the southern United States to southern Argentina. Mostly in poor, rural areas of Central and South America. Chronic Chagas’ disease is a major health problem in many Latin American countries. With increased population movements, the possibility of transmission by blood transfusion has become more substantial in the United States.
The main symptoms are cardiomyopathy (heart damage) and dysphagia (trouble swallowing). The link is that both involve damage to muscle (heart and esophagus respectively).
I immediately recognized this from a rather more obscure source, but was never sure it was an actual disease until now – a character in Madeleine L’Engle’s A House Like A Lotus has Chagas’ disease. It’s apparent from all the other information given here that she (L’Engle) researched it rather well.
Is there anything similar to it that’s called Netson’s disease (also in the book but more likely not to be real)?
I’ve never heard of it (but that is clearly not an acid test for a medical disease’s existence!). Could you be meaning Refsum’s Disease? This is a condition that results from a genetic defect in a person’s ability to metabolize phytanic acid. I think it causes mostly nerve damage and blindness.
I am curious why you decided to move the above thread but not this one.