{"id":9575,"date":"2025-12-15T01:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2025-12-15T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:21:38","slug":"what-to-do-if-bitten-by-an-assassin-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=9575","title":{"rendered":"What To Do If Bitten By An Assassin Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer brings more than sunshine\u2014it also brings pests like the assassin bug, an insect many people haven\u2019t heard of but should be aware of. Also known as kissing bugs, they feed on blood and can spread parasites that may cause Chagas disease, a potentially serious illness. Found across much of the U.S., especially in southern states, they often hide in gardens, under porches, or inside homes, making cleanliness and debris removal key to prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer brings more than sunshine\u2014it also brings pests like the assassin bug, an insect many people haven\u2019t heard of but should be aware of. Also known as kissing bugs, they feed on blood and can spread parasites that may cause Chagas disease, a potentially serious illness. Found across much of the U.S., especially in southern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}