This little-known infection can stay hidden for years—then suddenly trigger serious, life-threatening complications.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eastern bloodsucking conenose kissing bug. (Brett_Hondow/Getty Images) (Brett_Hondow/Getty Images) A deadly, little-known ...

Researchers working with Professor Ralf Erdmann at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have discovered a critical vulnerability shared by the pathogens that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of researchers aims to have Chagas disease, also known as "kissing bug" disease, ranked an endemic in the U.S. Researchers ...

Eastern bloodsucking conenose "kissing bug" (Triatoma sanguisuga) on a leaf. This nocturnal bloodsucker carries and passes the Chagas disease to hosts. Photograph by Brett Hondow, Alamy Stock Photo ...

Health experts are raising awareness about the spread of Chagas disease, a potentially deadly illness transmitted by insects known as "kissing bugs" in the United States. Locally acquired human cases ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says a potentially deadly condition could become an endemic illness in the U.S. A parasitic infection called Chagas disease is transmitted through ...

Chagas disease is also known as American trypanosomiasis ...

Health experts say Chagas disease is now considered an endemic in the US. Those at UCLA Health believe about 45,000 people in LA County are already infected with the disease. Symptoms during the acute ...

Deadly "kissing bug" disease has spread in the U.S. Here's what to know. Chagas disease is already endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, and growing evidence of the parasite is challenging the ...

A group of researchers aims to have Chagas disease, also known as "kissing bug" disease, ranked an endemic in the U.S. Researchers from the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, the University ...