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Posted 11/25/2015 1:07 AM (GMT 0)
Well, it was nice knowing you guys. smhair

Deadly kissing bug:

fox59.com/2015/11/24/deadly-kissing-bug-spreads-to-more-than-half-of-us/

Post Edited (happyjo) : 11/24/2015 6:15:34 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/25/2015 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
Ok, although the CDC site said docs would need to check with CDC re treatment (??!), this link below helped soothe the worry of zombie apocalypse!

Natural remedies:
www.naturalnews.com/036050_Chagas_disease_AIDS_homeopathic_remedies.html
Posted 11/25/2015 2:14 AM (GMT 0)
That's great! Just what we need is one more bug to worry about. There are a bunch of dogs in need of homes being shipped to some states from Texas, including here. It's a good service, but if this is true, they need to be aware. I wonder why this wasn't mentioned a long time ago.
Posted 11/25/2015 12:55 PM (GMT 0)
If life had any sort of sense of humour it would at least make bugs look cute. That's not the face of anything I want 'kissing' me, thank you, infected or otherwise!!!
Posted 11/25/2015 2:21 PM (GMT 0)
Someone sent this link to me & I later looked up the various images. The really scary, odd thing is 2 days ago, in my powder room, I caught & captured seriously what I think is one of these bugs-oooo!

My spouse had just left for work & I later told him it was a good thing he wasn't here, as he has kind of a phobia of roaches. He grew up in a place where they referred to the roaches as "Philly Reds," slightly reddish looking, icky roaches. Geographically where I live now, we do not have roaches so when I saw this I was like waaa the heck is this?? And good thing I came across it rather than my spouse!

Being the kind to nature type, I caught this bug & let it go outside. Now, I am FREAKING as I swear it was one of these "kissing bugs" & I am envisioning him lurking about, planning his reentry! We have a doggy door that I've always kept open, but last night I put the slat in the door (waking at 3am to take one of the pooches out-argh). My spouse, of course, now thinks I am doubly neurotic!

And yes, SS~they should at least be cute with that name & attraction to lips! Eeeeoooo!!!
Posted 11/25/2015 2:28 PM (GMT 0)
Ok-confirmed. This is def the bug I found:
www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/b477a198bde417998375e818259b52694e93a467/c=120-0-1689-1171&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/Phoenix/Phoenix/2014/06/24/1403639922000-Triatoma-rubida-dorsal-p18r7n31utbqgp2i1ji21m2qs7t.jpg
Posted 11/25/2015 2:47 PM (GMT 0)
YIKES, seriously, I hope it wasn't that big.... ;)

See what I mean, ugly little............aren't they!?!
Posted 11/25/2015 2:55 PM (GMT 0)
LOL! We have those here. They don't wait around the corner until you fall asleep and then attack. You put him outside and he was likely grateful and took off to go find his buddies!

Shortly after we moved here, I was bit by a really strange looking bug - and it hurt like the dickens!!! So I grabbed a jar and a lid and captured that bugger. The next day I ventured into town - bug in tow - to the library. I wanted to know what I had been bit by and if I needed to worry as I had never seen one of these before:
entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/trees/wheel_bug.htm

I managed to freak out not only everyone in the library "OMG! What IS that thing? We don't have those here!" my response: "Uhm, yes we do. I got it from my hilltop here" - so I went to the only Dr's office in town and - yep- got the same response!! It was really odd to be bit by a bug that no one knew was in the area, until I went to the local Extension office and they were able to confirm that it was a bug here in this area - right! I had already figured that much out!!
Posted 11/25/2015 3:02 PM (GMT 0)
If you take a bug to the library does it become a bookworm?

Sorry ;)
Posted 11/25/2015 3:03 PM (GMT 0)
Uhm, no!! You scare the Librarian and are asked to leave - with the bug!!! Giggle!
Posted 11/25/2015 3:37 PM (GMT 0)
Haha! Freaky looking bug, Trav! Looks like it jumped the fence with the lizard scales, & interesting egg cluster, resembling a honey comb. I never used to react in a "girly" way with bugs, but now...aghhh! Maybe one day I can come back to my invincible, loving nature self (doubtful--now thinking room service trumps camping wayyyy more)!
Posted 11/25/2015 3:43 PM (GMT 0)
Well, I have to admit that I've modified the way I see camping too!! LOL! No more tents on the ground and this old, achy body needs something softer than those rocks under the sleeping bag will allow! But, I can't help myself and find so much beauty in the world - I have learned to keep a little more distance between me and most things though!! turn
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