Professor Lily Balloffet's latest research traces successful early efforts to produce new antivenoms in Latin America and explores implications for modern public health issues, like snakebite and Chag ...

The influx of minute pirate bugs can be a painful nuisance at this time of year for humans due to their normal food sources becoming scarce.

Surveys this year found that Northeast Ohio was one of the top spots in the country for bed bug infestations. Officials say they spread easily and once established, it can be expensive to remove them.

Kissing bugs known to spread Chagas Disease, a deadly parasitic infection, have been found in Ohio, but there have been no reports of the disease. However, there are ways to prevent contact with the ...

Chagas disease, spread by kissing bugs, is declared endemic by the CDC, but Alabama has reported no human cases this year.

Portage County health officials advise people to use insect repellent and remove standing water to help protect themselves against mosquito bites.

Beach-biting pests — especially no-see-ums — are most common particularly around salt marshes, intertidal zones and beaches strewn with decaying seaweed and organic debris, according to the N.C. State ...

To learn more about what attracts mosquitoes, researchers turned to one of the world’s least hygienic and most chaotic environments: a music festival. The Lowlands music festival in a farming area ...

Kissing bugs, also known as eastern-cone-nose bugs or triatomine, can bite faces and infect humans with Chagas disease. Chagas is a parasitic infection that can cause fever, aches and, in severe cases ...

A parasitic disease called Chagas may be establishing itself in the United States, and the “kissing bugs” that cause the illness are known to live in Ohio, according to a ...