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🗓️ 10 September 2025
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Chagas disease has become so ubiquitous in the southern part of the United States that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently put out a report saying that it’s now time to consider it “endemic.” Let’s go through what the disease is, how it’s spread, and what you can do to keep yourself safe.
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| 1:00.6 | let's dive into the main topic which has to do with this right here it's what's known as a kissing |
| 1:06.0 | bug which is you can say a pretty nice name, considering what this thing actually is. |
| 1:11.3 | It's literally a blood-sucking parasite. |
| 1:14.5 | They're about an inch long. |
| 1:15.6 | They're usually dark brown or black with these red or orange markings around the edges of their bodies. |
| 1:23.0 | And in recent years, they've become, you can say, fairly common in the southern part of the country, |
| 1:29.0 | in the southern states, especially in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, |
| 1:35.5 | Georgia, as well as the southern part of California. Although, I think it's worth mentioning |
| 1:40.0 | that there have also been reported sightings of these particular bugs in at least two dozen other |
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