June 2024 |Written by: J.K. Peterson, PhD Assistant Professor Medical Entomology University of Delaware Graduate students: Alex Kelley, Hanna Cortes What is a kissing bug? Kissing bugs are insects ...

"Kissing bugs" might sound like they'd be cute and cuddly insect companions. But, in reality, they are blood-sucking pests infested with a parasite that can make you, your family, and your pets sick.

Kissing bugs, or triatomine bugs, are the primary vector for Chagas disease, a major public health concern in Central and South America and even the southern United States. However, there aren't ...

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WASHINGTON, July 19. -- According to Dr. L.O. Howard, Chief of the Division of Entomology of the Agricultural Department, the much advertised kissing bug is an old acquaintance of ours ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I grew up believing that my auntie had almost died because she ate an apple in South America. According to the family ...

Kissing bugs (such as the Triatoma gerstaeckeri shown here) are a group of bloodsucking insects, found in Latin America and the southern United States, that transmit the pathogen that causes ...

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, ...

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