No, Kissing Bugs Are Not A New Scourge

JONAH BROMWICH, NY Times: Science
Wed, 11/25/2015 - 12:28pm

Despite a sudden surge in news reports, the bugs have been in the United States for a long time, and the C.D.C. considers deaths from a disease they carry to be rare.

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