The Kissing Bug is headed to Chicago

April 29, 2019 | <3 Lauren

“Kissing Bug” sounds adorable to me.  Like a new couple who got “bitten by the kissing bug” because they are making out all over the place.  Or a Coachella-related STD… (because 11,000 people contracted herpes at the festival.)  The actual kissing bug is much worse.

The bug crawls around your mouth and eyes and bites you as you sleep. Which sound horrible, but is not even the worst part.  The worst part is their poop.

“Patients, when they are sleepy, the part where the insect has bitten them, they’ll accidentally rub in the poop which has the organism in it into the wound. And that is how you get Chagas disease. From there it extends from the skin into the bloodstream,” said Infectious Disease physician Tom Moore.  More from the CDC HERE.

I honestly didn’t think it could get worse than a Leggy Boi.  Boi was I wrong. 😫

<3 Lauren

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