Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eastern bloodsucking conenose "kissing bug" (Triatoma sanguisuga) on a leaf. This nocturnal bloodsucker carries and passes the ...

University of Delaware researchers discovered a kissing bug found in New Castle County in July 2023 was infected with a parasite that causes a sometimes lethal disease. It's a first for the state, ...

Public health officials have confirmed the presence of the so-called kissing bug in Delaware for the first time in the state's history. The insect—Triatoma sanguisuga—is a blood-sucking creature that ...

For the past few weeks, Lee Green, the Indiana Department of Health’s senior medical entomologist, has been getting a lot of calls about kissing bugs. Kissing bugs – also known by the more scientific ...

The "kissing bug" – which bites people around their mouth and can pass along the fatal disease Chagas – is making its way north and has been reported in Colorado, according to the Centers for Disease ...

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