As predictable as cool fall nights and Chiefs sweatshirts around Kansas City, I know my window screens will be covered with tiny bugs. These black specks show up each autumn, congregating on my ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Are "kissing bugs," the bugs that transmit a potentially deadly parasitic disease that has been spreading in the U.S., in Illinois? A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in the United States, experts say – and without recognition ...

Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about getting sick. By Simar Bajaj Perhaps you’ve seen the “kissing bug” disease ...

A pair of kissing bugs, with the female seen at the bottom, are shown in a photo from Tucson, Arizona, on June 8, 2006. A pair of kissing bugs, with the female seen at the bottom, are shown in a photo ...

Like a plague of locusts, small, black-and-red flies swarmed the porch of Patricia Sagastume's beachfront home on the Bolivar Peninsula over the weekend. Dragonflies and birds swooped in behind them, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Tuesday report in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal raising awareness about the deadly “kissing bug” disease also known as ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A parasitic infection called Chagas disease from so-called "kissing bugs" has made its way to California -- and it's causing some concern. The infection can spread in several ...

Eighty-five years ago today, July 27, 1940, the non-iconic animated short A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery, was released by Warner Bros., in what is widely regarded as the debut of the fully ...

People in Florida are having to worry about a unique disease-carrying insect known as the kissing bug. New research shows these bugs are often loaded with a parasite that can cause a chronic, ...