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NEW ORLEANS — It's one of the leading causes of heart disease in Latin America, and it's caused by a parasite that gets inside of you from a bug bite. Now the CDC wants people in Louisiana and other ...

The Triatominae, or kissing bug, carries a parasite in its feces that can enter the body through the wound once a person ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -During the summer of 2020, entomologists from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Entomology identified a species of kissing ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people of a deadly bug that can be found in Indiana. The insect's scientific name is Triatominae, but it is better known by its ...

Bed bugs are back with a vengeance. After an absence of around 70 years, thanks to effective pesticides such as DDT, they’ve been popping up in fancy hotels, spas, department stores, subway trains, ...

The Chagas disease has been found in 5 states. — -- A rare parasitic infection called Chagas disease has been gaining headlines in recent weeks after cases of the infection were reported in at ...

Recent evidence is leading to Chagas disease being classified as endemic in the U.S., which means it occurs regularly within an area, community or even country. Chagas disease is a potentially fatal ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Tuesday report in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal raising awareness about the deadly “kissing bug” disease also known as ...

Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - You may have heard about the "kissing bug." While its name sounds friendly, its bite can be dangerous. "Kissing bugs do exist in Louisiana," said Dr. B.J. Foch, Department of ...

One day when she woke up, Eunice Kagweria had itchy pimple-like protrusions on her stomach and back. “It was such a unsightly mess on my skin,” she says. She had no other symptoms of illness but the ...