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

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, ...

The matador bug’s flashy leg-waving isn’t a mating ritual but a predator deterrent, revealing a surprising defense strategy shared by multiple insect species and hinting at broader evolutionary ...

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.

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

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

Millions of people around the world are estimated to have Chagas disease, a potentially fatal, parasitic illness.

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 ...

White, fluffy bugs floating through Alabama this fall? They’re harmless to humans but can be a sticky, tree-damaging nuisance.