Tsetse flies carry African trypanosomiasis, but assassin bugs carry American trypanosomiasis caused by the parasite ...

We think that people in Texas, especially in Houston, might have exposures to the insect that causes Chagas disease. We are asking the Houston public to help us collect and test any “kissing bugs”, ...

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 ...

Researchers in Japan and El Salvador have identified plant-derived compounds that could treat Chagas ... when the bug’s parasite-laden faeces come into contact with the wound. The disease ...

Wait, WTF is an Assassin Bug? Have you ever heard of this thing ... mostly in Central and South America and kill humans via Chagas disease. The disease spreads by directly biting a human or ...

The assassin bug, also called the kissing bug, is responsible for carrying Chagas disease, which kills about 12,000 people a year on average. Chagas disease is a parasitic infection passed by 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, ...