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 ...

A dangerous, sometimes deadly, infection spread by kissing bugs is regularly spreading within America. In a recent paper, researchers are claiming that Chagas disease is endemic to parts of the ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso have found a sharp increase in the number of insects carrying the parasite ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of researchers is looking for Chagas disease, also known as "kissing bug" disease, to be ranked as an endemic in the United States. In a recently published study, researchers from the ...

What to know, what to watch for, and when to act.

Chagas disease, transmitted by "kissing bugs," is now endemic in parts of the US, with local transmission reported in at ...

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 ...