A kiss might steal your heart — but this one could stop it.

Health experts are warning about a deadly parasitic infection spread by so-called kissing bugs, which have now been found in 32 states across the country.

At least eight Americans have caught Chagas disease through local transmission, leading scientists to urge the CDC and WHO to officially declare the life-threatening illness endemic in the US.

Kissing bugs are the most common way that Chagas disease spreads. Gabriel Hamer

“This is a disease that has been neglected and has been impacting Latin Americans for many decades,” Norman Beatty, a Chagas expert and epidemiologist, who co-authored the paper, told the Los Angeles Times . “But it’s also here in the United States.”

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