{"id":10194,"date":"2025-09-03T12:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:47:56","slug":"chagas-disease-long-considered-only-a-threat-abroad-is-established-in-california-and-the-southern-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/chagas-disease-long-considered-only-a-threat-abroad-is-established-in-california-and-the-southern-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Chagas disease, long considered only a threat abroad, is established in California and the Southern US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/chagas-disease-long-considered-only-a-threat-abroad-is-established-in-california-and-the-southern-us\/\">Seattle Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most insidious diseases you\u2019ve never heard of, but Chagas is here in California and 29 other states across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It kills more people in Latin America than malaria each year, and researchers think roughly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5154432\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"300,000 people in the U.S., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">300,000 people in the U.S.<\/a>&nbsp;currently have it but are unaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s because the illness tends to lie dormant for years, only making itself known when its victim keels over via heart attack, stroke or death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chagas disease is caused by the parasite&nbsp;<em>Trypanosoma cruzi,<\/em>&nbsp;which lives in a bloodsucking insect called the kissing bug. There are roughly a dozen species of kissing bugs in the U.S. and four in California known to carry the parasite. Research has shown that in some places, such as Los Angeles\u2019 Griffith Park, about a third of all kissing bugs harbor the Chagas parasite.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Times It\u2019s one of the most insidious diseases you\u2019ve never heard of, but Chagas is here in California and 29 other states across the U.S. It kills more people in Latin America than malaria each year, and researchers think roughly&nbsp;300,000 people in the U.S.&nbsp;currently have it but are unaware. That\u2019s because the illness tends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}