Chagas disease is spreading in the U.S., raising concerns about infected kissing bugs and gaps in diagnosis and screening.

Bugs. The ecosystem can't survive without them, but they sure do know how to ruin a good time. Roasting (and eating lots of) s'mores is less fun when bugs are biting you, but summer fun after sundown ...

(The Hill) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Tuesday report raising awareness about the deadly “kissing bug” disease, also known as Chagas. Chagas disease can cause ...

If you needed another reason to be vigilant about wearing bug spray, here it is. Rays righty pitcher Ryan Pepiot told reporters that he spent 60 hours in the hospital as a result of an infection in ...

You can run, but you can’t hide from mosquitoes. In fact, running might make it worse—mosquitoes love it when you work up a sweat—although it’s not so much the sweat that attracts them as the carbon ...

Both bug bites and hives can cause red, itchy bumps on your skin. While it can be difficult to tell them apart, learning key features and characteristics of each can help. Hives and bug bites are ...

It can be jarring to discover you have a new bug bite, let alone several bug bites. And if it doesn’t look like you’re dealing with mosquito bites, it’s fair to wonder if you could have bed bug or ...

Pepiot told reporters Saturday that he spent 60 hours in the hospital to treat an infection in his right knee due to a bug bite, Ryan Bass of Bally Sports Sun reports. Pepiot was placed on the 15-day ...

I clearly remember the moment on an otherwise average day in December when I slid my hand across the slope of my shoulder, and felt a small bump. It should have been like scratching an itch or ...

Halle Hizer, 20, was on vacation in Greece when a bug bite turned into a painful abscess, requiring surgery back at home Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...