As summer continues and we reach mid-season, outdoor activities such as hiking, and camping bring a higher chance of encountering ticks. Ticks are very small and can often go unnoticed by the naked ...

Kissing bugs are blood-sucking insects/ just like mosquitoes and ticks, and they're responsible for spreading a parasite that ...

The Asian longhorned tick, which has been spotted in over 20 states, was first identified in the U.S. in New Jersey eight ...

Kissing bugs may sound charming, but with one bite, these insects can spread a dangerous parasitic infection: Chagas disease.

In the past decade, humans reported contracting Chagas disease from 'kissing bugs' in eight states, including Tennessee.

Certain bugs carry illnesses, known as vector-borne diseases, that can make you very sick. Learn how to protect yourself from ...

Insect and tick-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and Lyme disease, are serious health threats which cause human misery, hardship and more than one million deaths worldwide ...

California is one of the eight states where people have acquired Chagas disease locally from insects that carry a parasite in ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, or MDHHS, is encouraging residents to take steps to avoid tick bites. As the weather warms, transmission of tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease ...

Chagas disease in humans has been reported in eight U.S. states, according to Texas A&M University research on kissing bugs.