As human activity alters the environment, kissing bugs and parasites will ultimately adapt. The geographic range of infected ...

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 ...

Chagas disease ... researcher who diagnosed the disease in a person for the first time in 1909. While traditionally associated with the bite of the triatomine bug, also known as the "kissing ...