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 ...

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.

Talk of a “kissing ... The bug carries a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi (sometimes referred to as T. cruzi by scientists), which can cause a condition in humans and pets known as Chagas ...

Don't let their endearing nickname fool you; kissing bugs ... eye with a dirty hand," Texas A&M researchers further explained. "Dogs can become infected by eating kissing bugs." ...

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 ...

He knew that local kissing bugs transmitted the parasite to other mammals, but he wanted to know if humans could contract it, too. So, he stuffed a crushed kissing bug into the eye of a young ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -- The deadly "Kissing Bug," as it's known, has made its way into Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The bug is normally found in Mexico and South America, but has now been reported in ...