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 ...

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 ...

A US doctor has now warned that kissing a man with a beard can result in skin infections due to bacteria that can be passed ...

bed bugs, mosquitoes, kissing bugs, and more. In most cases, bug bites are not deadly to humans, but some bites can cause ...

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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We are asking the Houston public to help us collect and test any “kissing bugs”, “chinches” or triatomine vectors from our fair city. Chagas disease is not transmitted from person-to-person like a ...

Dr. Ng says cleaning and cold compresses can reduce the pain. Monitor for infection. Kissing bug is a nickname. "Triatomine ...

What it looks like: Triatomine bugs, also called kissing bugs, tend to reside in Mexico, Central America, South America, and parts of the United States. While there are different varieties of ...

If you start having any of these symptoms, get medical help immediately. Triatomine bugs — known as kissing bugs — are nocturnal, blood-sucking insects that carry the parasite that causes ...

The parasite is transmitted via blood-sucking insects known as triatomines, which often bite the face and are known as ‘kissing bugs’. Humans and other mammals, can become infected when the ...

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, ...