The problem is that many doctors are unfamiliar with Chagas disease, and that this bug lives in Louisiana, especially in ...

These pictures of common bug bites can help you figure out what bit you, and how you should seek treatment.

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 ...

Researchers and health officials are calling for Chagas disease, spread by the 'kissing bug,' be considered endemic, aka regularly occurring.

There's a bug in the U.S. that's got no love for you. The "kissing bug," better known as the triatomine bug, carries a parasite that can cause serious illness. Here’s what you need to know about this ...

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease. Chagas is a parasitic infection that can cause fever, aches and, in severe cases ...

A pair of kissing bugs, with the female seen at the bottom, are shown in a photo from Tucson, Arizona, on June 8, 2006. Credit - The Arizona Daily Star/AP Millions of people around the world are ...

Since 2013, "kissing bugs" have been reported in 31 states. In eight of these states, humans were reported to have ...

HOUSTON — A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising awareness that the potentially deadly Chagas disease is becoming more common in the United States. The disease is ...