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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (21420)	5/8/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, Duncan, I am not the kind of person who enjoys camping in the desert. In fact, I consider Motel 6 to be "roughing it" sort of experience. However, I did find the kissing bugs sort of fascinating, in a perverse way: <Kissing bugs, being blood feeders and closely associated with humans, are sometimes vectors of Chagas' disease, known to occur in Mexico to South America. All species of kissing bugs may harbor the pathogen,Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of this disease. Transmission of the pathogen is through the kissing bug feces that is deposited near the feeding sight and later rubbed into the itchy wound site by the victim. The four species of Triatoma found in Arizona, due to their behavior of defecating away from their feeding site, have never been implicated in transmitting this pathogen.> biologie.uni-regensburg.de I hope you are not planning an expedition to South America or anything! If you do not like the American variety, you will really not like their friends south of the border who do not even relieve themselves in a dignified and sanitary way!