Health experts warn of a deadly parasitic infection spread by kissing bugs, now classified as endemic in the US, with cases confirmed in eight states.

A deadly, little-known parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, once considered to only be a threat abroad, may becoming endemic in the United States, researchers argue in a new study. Chagas disease is often called a silent killer because it can go unnoticed for years,

A life-threatening parasitic infection transmitted by ‘kissing bugs’ has spread to more than half of the states in the US. Human cases of what is formally called Chagas disease have been reported in at least seven states,