At the University of the Andes in Bogotá, biologist Felipe Guhl has been studying the kissing bug disease for more than four decades. There I learned that these insects are homebodies ...

We think that people in Texas, especially in Houston, might have exposures to the insect that causes Chagas disease. We are asking the Houston public to help us collect and test any “kissing bugs”, ...

They are native to Delaware and live in wooded areas. Kissing bugs carry a parasite that causes a disease called Chagas disease. Chagas disease can lead to serious heart problems. Kissing bugs spread ...

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite ... with the bite of the triatomine bug, also known as the "kissing bug," ...

Based on a photograph, the Delaware Department of Agriculture identified the insect as Triatoma sanguisuga, a type of "kissing bug" that can transmit a parasitic illness called Chagas disease.

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which often bite the face and are known as ‘kissing bugs’. Humans and other mammals, can become infected when the bug’s parasite-laden faeces come into contact with the wound. The disease ...

Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi), transmitted by triatomines (kissing bugs), affects by some estimates as many as 9-10 million people around the world. In total, ...