"Rare Infection Threatens To Spread in Blood Supply.
A new infection is now threatening the United States. It is called Cheagas, and it is popular in South America. Cheagas is a parasite infection that is getting spread by blood transfusions. There is no effective treatment or vaccine for Cheagas. It was named after a Brazilian doctor who described it in 1909, Carlos Cheagas. The original patient gets infected by a certain bug. The bug bites you when you are asleep, then it drops a some feces on the bite and the sleeping patient usually rubs the feces in the the bite. The feces gets into the blood stream and does its work.
When you get infected by Cheagas, you may get a fever and swollen glands, liver or spleen. No one usually dies from the first phase, except for infants. Then the disease will lie dormant for between 10-30 years, then it will suddenly rupture your weakened organs. Now-a-days it is getting spread throughout South America through blood transfusions. .
In the United States the odds of you getting infected blood is 1-25,000. That figure still seems high, but in Guadalajara, Mexico the chance of getting infected blood is 1-126. Personally, I like our odd a little better. But to me it still seems that 1-25,000 is still a lot. There should be a way that we can test the blood for every disease. Cause I would be upset if I found out that I get a harmful disease from something that I thought that would save my life. When we watched that video on the MTV AIDS thing, and that one guy who was a hemophiliac, and he needs to get more blood into him cause the littlest cut will make him bleed a lot. He once got a transfusion and the blood has AIDS in it. It seems that the people that were handling the blood should face the consciences cause now that man had hemophilia and AIDS. .
