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Deadly Kissing Bug Disease Is on The Rise Across The US, CDC Warns


Blood-sucking 'kissing bugs' have now carried a deadly parasite across 32 US states, the CDC warns, with hundreds of thousands of people likely already infected with the parasitic disease Chagas without realizing it.

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