Kissing bugs, also known as triatomine bugs or conenose bugs, are blood-sucking insects that get their nickname from their ...

The inch-long triatomine bug is called the "kissing bug" because it has a habit of feeding on blood by biting around the lips and faces of people while they sleep, CNN reported.

Triatomine bugs carry it and can infect humans with their bite, the CDC says. Chagas is found only in the Americas, and mainly rural parts of Latin America, the CDC says.

Chagas disease is a nasty parasitic illness spread by bites from bloodsucking triatomine bugs. These bugs climb on people's faces at night to feed, biting eyes and lips, which is why they're ...

First it was killer bees, fire ants and Asian tiger mosquitoes. Now comes the kissing beetle. The triatomine beetle that carries Chagas disease, the scourge of Latin America, prefers to kiss its vi… ...

Bugs called triatomine, carry a disease called Chagas disease. CDC confirmed last week that a triatomine bug was responsible for a July 2018 bite in Delaware, the farthest the bug has been ...

Triatomine bugs (also called reduviid bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs, cone-nosed bugs, and blood suckers) have been found in the Southern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America: ...

While transmission in the U.S. is rare, Schaffner said that epidemiologists are on the lookout for a rise of the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite or the triatomine insect as temperatures rise due to ...

A triatomine bug, or kissing bug, with its eggs. Kissing bugs have been reported in 27 states, but not in New Jersey. (Jim Gathany/CDC) They have been spotted in 27 states, including nearby ...

News; Deadly Triatomine 'kissing bug' now in 28 US states: What you need to know. Published: Nov. 27, 2015, 6:14 p.m. Nov. 27, 2015, 6:14 p.m.