Dec 11, 2004 16:33
I forgot to mention this last entry. So in Central and South American countries there is this disease called Chaga's disease. You get it by accidently wiping bug feces into your eyes, mouth, or open wound. The bugs live in cracks of poorly designed houses. Now when you get this disease only 1 percent of the cases show immediate symptoms. The rest of them occur 10 to 20 YEARS later. There is no cure or vaccination to it. Your heart will just become enlarged and you will just die one day...randomly. Creepy...but amusing that bug feces in your eye could kill you. So you are required to put netting around your bed and to refrain from wiping your eyes or touching wounds.