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

What are kissing bugs? Kissing bugs, or Triatomine bugs, are named so as they tend to bite people on the face and near the ...

They are native to Delaware and live in wooded areas. Kissing bugs carry a parasite that causes a disease called Chagas disease. Chagas disease can lead to serious heart problems. Kissing bugs spread ...

The feces left by the bug near its bite carry the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite, which can be spread to the wound when the bite is rubbed or scratched. Gabriel Hamer/TAMU If we have kissing bugs ...

The insect vectors are called triatomine bugs or “kissing bugs” or “chinches”. If infected, these blood-sucking bugs pass T. cruzi parasites in their feces. During the night, when people are sleeping, ...

but not all kissing bugs spread the parasite. So far, the CDC has only documented a few cases of Chagas disease from contact with the bugs in the US. To lower your risk of encountering a kissing ...

Triatomine bugs — known as kissing bugs — are nocturnal, blood-sucking insects that carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease. They are known to bite areas on the face, such as the eye or ...

The infection is linked to an insect known as a triatomine or kissing bug, which often lives in the wall and roof ... people around the world are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that ...

The parasite is transmitted via blood-sucking insects known as triatomines, which often bite the face and are known as ‘kissing bugs’. Humans and other mammals, can become infected when the ...

Another model we use is the kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, the vector for Chagas disease in Latin America. Unlike the mosquito system the parasites, Trypanosoma cruzi, never leave the insect gut.