{"id":731,"date":"2023-06-03T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:13:43","slug":"whats-really-going-on-with-the-kissing-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Really Going On With The Kissing Bug?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Triatomine bug also known to us as the kissing bug has been all over news lately. What is the truth behind their deadly bites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kissing bug is nocturnal and about an inch long and feeds on mammal\u2019s blood.<br>They specially like to bite around lips and faces of people.<br>Bites are deadly only if it is infected with the parasite trypanosoma cruzi defecate and the fecal matter infects the bite. This infection is called Chagas disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Sarah Hamer who is assistant professor of epidemiology at Texas A&amp;M\u2019s veterinary and biomedical school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s great we are heightening our awareness but we don\u2019t need to be terribly scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also says that it is rare for kissing bugs to feed on people. The studies have also found that there is only about one case Chagas for every 900-4,000 contacts with infected kissing bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triatomine bug also known to us as the kissing bug has been all over news lately. What is the truth behind their deadly bites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pest-control-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myenvirocare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}