Can chickens get Chagas Disease?

[Jubilee1111]

I just found a Triatomine Bug on my front porch. I am absolutely horrified as they infect dogs and people with Chagas disease. I know of a dog not far from me who is dying of congestive heart failure from this disease.

Can chickens gets Chagas Disease?

 

[dawg53]

Here's a link with info regarding chickens and chagas disease...scary:
http://njabr.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Chagas-Disease.pdf

 

[Jubilee1111]

Oh man, Dawg, That is the most info I've seen on the disease process. The DNA aspect is the scariest of all!

 

[dawg53]

Oh man, Dawg, That is the most info I've seen on the disease process. The DNA aspect is the scariest of all!

For sure it's scary...something right out of a sci-fi movie! Sheeesh!