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 ...

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 ...

Monitor for infection. Kissing bug is a nickname. "Triatomine bugs, commonly known as kissing bugs, are the major vector of ...

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 ...

While traditionally associated with the bite of the triatomine bug, also known as the "kissing bug," the parasite finds ...

Chagas disease; rapid diagnostic test; diagnostic performance; cost-effectiveness; antiparasitic treatment Chagas disease (CD ...