Kissing bugs, or triatomines, feed off of the blood of humans and other animals ... rubs the eye or mouth with a contaminated hand. Triatomines that have the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite may ...

Kissing bugs are vectors ... a little of the stomach contents of each bug on a forensics rapid test and it can tell you in an hour or two if there was human blood in the bug.

a type of "kissing bug" that can transmit a parasitic illness called Chagas disease. The bugs latch onto human (and animal) faces to suck their blood. The bugs then tend to defecate after they ...

As KBTX3 reported, cases of kissing bugs have increased, creating serious risks for humans and dogs. Kissing bugs spread diseases through their feces and also by sucking blood, just like mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse ... Fahrenheit before it reaches the bug’s abdomen. So the bug is safe. You, on the other hand, are not. It injects saliva as it sucks ...

The kissing bug is a blood-sucking insect that attacks humans for food. They tend to bite around the mouth and eye region on the face. These bugs transmit a dangerous disease called Chagas.

Chagas Disease is not caused by the Kissing Bug bites themselves, but by the feces from Kissing Bugs. Sometimes the feces can enter the body through the mouth near where the bugs bite humans ...

While their adorable name stems from the way they leave midnight nips and smooches around human mouths and eyes, kissing bugs actually pose the greatest threat to humans through their feces.

A kissing bug gorges on your blood ... degrees Fahrenheit before it reaches the bug’s abdomen. So the bug is safe. You, on the other hand, are not. It injects saliva as it sucks your ...