HEADS UP DOG PARENTS!! Share this.. HR- scary/sad... Right now no vaccines, treatments are minimally effective and no cure for Chagas disease. Chagas disease causes heart failure in dogs and is growing BIG TIME in Texas. Main bugs causing it, Kissing bugs, the winged insects have a flat, pear-shaped body and an elongated, cone-shaped head with a prominent beak. That beak is used to puncture skin and gorge on blood from a mammal. Higher risk at night Kissing bugs invariably do their feeding at night, emerging from brush piles, cracks, crevasses, thick grasses and similar habitat. They crawl onto their victims, often drawn by the carbon dioxide the mammal exhales, and take a bite. This bite often occurs near the victims mouth - thus the name kissing bug.
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 16:07:50 +0000
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