"Kissing bug" sounds like a sweet nickname, but these insects' bites are anything but harmless. In fact, they can transmit a parasite that causes Chagas disease, a potentially life-threatening ...

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

Health officials are warning Americans to be on alert as a possibly life-threatening parasitic disease continues to spread across southern states. Chagas disease is passed to humans through ...

It’s the kiss of death for Latin American communities in the U.S. While health experts often warn of mosquitoes and other disease-carrying bugs, the deadly kissing bug — a k a the triatomine bug, ...

Daisy Hernández’s journey to understand the history and devastating toll of Chagas disease began in her aunt’s hospital room.

(CNN) — Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in the United States, experts say – and without ...

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

Although the name sounds endearing, the “kissing bug” disease is nothing to fawn over. The disease is now being considered as an endemic classification, according to an August report from the Center ...

For the past few weeks, Lee Green, the Indiana Department of Health’s senior medical entomologist, has been getting a lot of calls about kissing bugs. Kissing bugs – also known by the more scientific ...