Article about the bug and the disease:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-01-28/news/9502020004_1_chagas-beetle-latin-america
I had to find out how something like that could bite you on the face and you wouldn’t notice. They inject an anesthetic as they bite.
We have bugs here that look very much like these and they are called kissing bugs. Seen them all my life but never knew anyone to be bitten by one. Always see them in my garden but just kept my distance. But after reading up on them this year because there are many, many more this year I am scared to pick the okra. There are 2-6 on every plant out there. One day I was in the kitchen putting away my harvest when I felt something on the top of my head. I brushed it off onto the floor and it was one of these bugs. That’s when I read up on them and found they use your breath, like a mosquito, to guide them to you and it really creeped me out that it was trying to make it’s way to my face!