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Kissing Bug
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Kissing Bug
As commonly used, any bug that acts as a vector for Chagas disease, so named because they often bite on the face. It is a cone-nosed haematophagous insect with various hosts in the tropics and subtropics; it measures 1-4 cm and is ‘autumn-colored’; its bite elicits papules, painful urticaria, haemorrhagic bulla, occasionally angiooedema, anaphylactoid reaction, and shock; it is also the vector for trypanosoma—Chaga’s disease—causing inflammation, atrophy and fibrosis of Auerbach’s plexus ganglion cells, resulting in acquired megacolon
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The film's setting is the beautiful coral reef of Banco Chinchorro in the Caribbean off the Mexican coast, a seemingly unspoiled location that is crucial to the film's soul.
A lovely reef interlude by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
A five-year-old gets to know his estranged dad and shares in his routines as an artisan fisherman on Mexico's Chinchorro Reef.
Also out there .. by New Internationalist
Alamar (To the Sea) -- spans such a summer for 7-year-old Natan Machado Palombini, who accompanies his father, Jorge, to his home at Banco Chinchorro in Quintana Roo, "a jungle in the middle of the sea" and the richest coral reef site in Mexico, according to the film.
SUMMER AT SEA by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
 
 
 
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