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 ...

A new illness, known as the “kissing bug disease,” may soon become endemic in the United States. A new illness, known as the “kissing bug disease,” may soon become endemic in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Tuesday report raising awareness about the deadly “kissing ...

Since 2013, Chagas disease in humans has been reported in eight states, according to Texas A&M University's Kissing Bug Community Science program.

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 ...

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 recognition ...

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 ...