HOUSTON — We’re all too familiar with mosquitos here in Texas, but there’s another bloodsucker that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants you to know about. We're talking about sand ...

Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease native to tropical areas, can spread with the bite of infected sand flies. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most common forms ...

Once thought to be a danger largely reserved for travelers, a flesh-eating parasite known as Leishmania mexicana is now likely spreading locally through some sand flies native to the southern U.S., a ...

A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the south in people with no international travel history — caused by a parasite strain that’s ...

A new species of bacteria of the genus Bartonella has been found in the Amazon National Park in the state of Pará, Brazil, in phlebotomine insects, also known as sand flies. This type of insect is ...

A disfiguring parasitic infection, common in the tropics, has now found a home in Texas and Oklahoma and is expanding its range in the U.S. The parasite, Leishmania mexicana, is transmitted by tiny ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro made a surprising finding while examining areas where sand flies rear their young: a new species of ...

Researchers report that several species of blood-sucking sand flies from disparate global regions have a predilection for feeding on the marijuana plant (Cannabis sativa). Female sand flies require ...