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Within affected countries, Chagas can be confined even further to the rural areas.  Traditional vector-borne transmission is correlated to poverty.  More specifically, the houses that the rural population live in are of very poor quality.  They are generally made with mud walls, a dirt floor and a thatched roof.  The mud walls easily crack and the triatomine bug then proceeds to infest the cracks and crevices of these dilapidated houses and bite the inhabitants who live there (Dias, 13).