The tropical illness can quietly attack your heart if left untreated. Here’s what a leading scientist says we can do to ...

Chagas, or “kissing bug” disease, is spreading in the U.S. Learn how it infects, common symptoms to watch for and what you can do to stay safe.

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease.

Kissing bugs may sound charming, but with one bite, these insects can spread a dangerous parasitic infection: Chagas disease. Affecting more than 7 million people worldwide, mostly in Latin America, ...

Chagas disease​ is already endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, and growing evidence of the parasite is challenging the ...

There are seven species of kissing bugs in Arizona. Here's everything to know about how harmful they are and how likely is it to get Chagas disease.

What is Chagas disease? Triatomine bugs, commonly called kissing bugs, invade our homes and feed on humans and their pets — ...

These true bugs feed on plant juices through a straw-like mouthpart. They cluster around seed pods and feed on the developing ...

Parasitic “kissing bugs,” small dark insects with orange and red stripes, once thought to be confined to rural South America, are known to spread Chagas, or “kissing bug disease,” and their consistent ...

Are “kissing bugs,” the bugs that transmit a potentially deadly parasitic disease that has been spreading in the U.S., in ...

Two UVA infectious disease experts outline the risks, transmission and prevention associated with Chagas’ disease.

Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be ...