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Chagas illness, or lethal “kissing bug” illness, has unfold within the U.S. Here is what to know.

Editorial Board Published September 9, 2025
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Chagas illness, or lethal “kissing bug” illness, has unfold within the U.S. Here is what to know.
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Chagas illness, a doubtlessly lethal situation brought on by an contaminated triatomine insect or “kissing bug,” could also be changing into endemic in the USA, in keeping with a Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention report. 

Within the report, which was initially printed final month for the September situation of the CDC’s Rising Infectious Illnesses journal, the authors mentioned the illness is already endemic to 21 nations within the Americas, and rising proof of the parasite is difficult the non-endemic label within the U.S.

“Autochthonous (or, locally acquired) human cases have been reported in 8 states, most notably in Texas. Labeling the United States as non-Chagas disease-endemic perpetuates low awareness and underreporting,” the report famous, including the insect has been reported in 32 states. 

Different states with human circumstances embody California, Arizona, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas.

This map reveals U.S. states with reported triatomine bugs and totally different ranges of Chagas illness circumstances.

Courtesy of the CDC

The report notes that information is “inadequate” to show that the bugs are rising in geographic distribution or abundance. However it additionally says that the bugs are “increasingly recognized” due to frequent encounters with people and resulting from extra analysis consideration.

“Invasion into homes, human bites, subsequent allergic reactions or exposure to T. cruzi parasites, and increasing frequency of canine diagnoses have led to growing public awareness,” it says.

What causes Chagas illness?

The situation is brought on by Trypanosoma cruzi parasites present in triatomine or “kissing bugs,” which may move the illness to different animals and people. 

In accordance with UCLA Well being, the insect’s nickname comes from the bug typically biting folks on the face.

In accordance with the CDC, about 8 million folks globally and 280,000 in the USA have the illness, typically with out figuring out it.

“People might scratch or rub bug feces into a bite wound, their eyes, or mouth without realizing it, which allows the parasite to enter their body,” the CDC says. The company explains that bugs move the parasite of their droppings after biting an individual or animal. “If these droppings get into someone’s body through a cut in the skin, or near the eyes or mouth, it can lead to infection.”

Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose Kissing Bug (Triatoma sanguisuga) on a leaf in Houston, TX.

Kissing Bug (Triatoma sanguisuga) on a leaf in Houston, Texas. 

Brett Hondow/Getty Photographs

The illness doesn’t unfold from individual to individual like a chilly, nor does it unfold by informal contact with these contaminated. 

With out therapy, the situation could be life-threatening, the CDC says.

Signs of Chagas illness in adults

Within the acute section, which occurs shortly after an infection, a kind of eyelid swelling often called Romaña’s signal might seem.

“This happens when the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite gets into the eyelid, usually by accidentally rubbing the bug feces into your eye or into a bug bite near your eye,” the CDC says.

Different acute indicators might embody: 

Fever
Feeling drained
Physique aches
Headache
Rash
Lack of urge for food
Diarrhea
Vomiting

Others might expertise signs for years or a lifetime, which is named the continual section of an infection, and may embody coronary heart and digestive points.

In each phases, some folks won’t really feel sick whereas others can have critical well being issues, the CDC provides. 

The best way to keep away from “kissing bugs”

There are not any vaccines or medication that may forestall Chagas illness presently, in keeping with the CDC, so it’s necessary to guard your self.

Prevention strategies embody staying in well-built locations if touring, utilizing pesticides and bug spray, sporting garments that cowl your pores and skin and never consuming uncooked vegetables and fruit, because the an infection can be acquired orally or by the mouth through contaminated meals. 

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