Saturday, 17 March 2012

With Climate Change, U.S. Could Face Risk From Chagas Disease

In the spring of 1835, Charles Darwin was bitten in Argentina by a "great wingless black bug," he wrote in his diary. "It is most disgusting to feel soft wingless insects, about an inch long, crawling over one's body," Darwin wrote, "before sucking they are quite thin, but afterwards round & bloated with blood." In all likelihood, Darwin's nighttime visitor was a member of Reduviid family of insects the so-called kissing bugs because of their habit of biting people around the mouth while they sleep...

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