Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

NEW ORLEANS — It's one of the leading causes of heart disease in Latin America, and it's caused by a parasite that gets inside of you from a bug bite. Now the CDC wants people in Louisiana and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eastern bloodsucking conenose "kissing bug" (Triatoma sanguisuga) on a leaf. This nocturnal bloodsucker carries and passes the ...

Kissing bug disease, which causes everything from a furious, excruciating itch to a sudden stroke or deadly heart attack, is endemic in the United States, a new report said. In other words, Chagas ...

While their bites are not usually dangerous, kissing bugs can transmit parasites that causes Chagas disease. Squishing a kissing bug can increase the risk of exposure to the parasite. Though several ...

Missouri is one of eight states in the country where a human has been diagnosed with Chagas disease, a parasitic infection spread by bugs. Scientists are now calling on health authorities to declare ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...

Every summer, an insect with a sweet name poses a serious threat to the populations of the southern United States and Latin America. Known as the kissing bug, this insect carries a parasite that can ...

Yes, there is such a thing as "kissing bug" disease. And yes, it can be found in Florida. Kissing bugs — which are not the same as so-called "lovebugs" — are parasites that can transmit a disease ...

Kissing bugs, carriers of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that causes Chagas disease, are spreading across the United States.

Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose Kissing Bug (Triatoma sanguisuga) on a leaf in Houston, TX. Dangerous biting insect native to the USA, that carries Chagas disease. Once considered an illness confined to ...