These insects are crossing the border, bringing yet another infectious disease to the USA In A Nutshell Infection rates jumped dramatically: 84.6% of triatomine “kissing bugs” collected near the El ...

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researchers discovered “unusually” high levels of the Chagas disease parasite found ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that ...

The study, published online in Epidemiology & Infection, reports that researchers tested 26 triatomine bugs and found 22 of ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso, led by Rosa Maldonado, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences, found ...

Two children who attended a Liverpool primary school which was battling an outbreak of an infectious stomach bug have died. The pair, five and six, were pupils at Millstead Primary School, in Everton, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

The symptoms are way more familiar than you might think. But the reality is, parasitic infections are a lot more common in humans than you think. In fact, malaria is caused by a parasite, and that ...

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 ...