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Kissing bugs live in your walls or roof during the day and come out at night to feed… on you. These blood suckers tend to bite humans on the face or lips and then defecate near the feeding site. This allows T. cruzi to enter the body.

Once infected, many people show very few initial symptoms. Some people may have a mild fever, headache and enlarged lymph nodes, and some may show no symptoms at all. Thirty to 40 percent of persons bitten have more serious symptoms that can appear as long as 30 years after the initial bite. In 20 to 30 percent of those cases, T. cruzi affects the heart much in the same way cardiomyopathy does, destroying the ventricular muscle. In fact, this disease is many times mistaken for cardiomyopathy. Some victims may also have an enlarged esophagus or colon. Once the disease has begun its progression, it is virtually impossible to stop its damaging effects. >>