Illegal Aliens are Infecting Americans with a parasitic illness that can cause strokes and heart failure and it is spreading across the US

• Chagas disease is caused by a parasite transmitted by a bug via its feces
• Most people don't show signs of infection but 30 percent can develop life-threatening complication including an enlarged heart
• The disease has mostly been limited to Central and South America, but it has entered the States, sickening an estimated 300,000 Americans in 27 States.
• A statement from the American Heart Association has warned that US doctors need to learn to recognize Chagas before an outbreak occurs

A parasitic illness that can cause strokes and heart failure is spreading across the US, doctors have warned.

Chagas disease is transmitted by an insect known as the 'kissing bug' because it tends to bite people's faces, near their mouths.

Many never shown signs that they've been infected with the disease, which is why it has earned the nickname of the 'silent killer'.

The disease has mostly been limited to Central and South America, but it has entered the States, sickening an estimated 300,000 Americans.

A statement released by the American Heart Association says that if US doctors don't become better at recognizing, diagnosing and treating Chagas disease, it could result in a devastating outbreak.

Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which lives in the gut of bug that transmits the disease, the triatomine insect, which is also known as the 'kissing bug'.

However, the disease is not spread through the bug's bite, rather through its feces.

After the bugs feed on you, they tend to defecate. If the feces accidentally are rubbed into the wound or the eye, it can result in infection.

Chagas disease has two phases known as the acute phase and the chronic phase.

According to the CDC, the acute phase lasts for the first few weeks or months after the infection.

Despite a high number of parasites circulating in the blood, most symptoms are either mild or absent.

Such symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, rash, or swelling near the bite wound or where the feces were deposited or rubbed into the eye.

During this stage, there are...

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