hysteria

A scare spread through many large cities of the US in June 1899. A large number of people asked for treatment at the Emergency Hospital in Washington, D.C. for what seemed to be bug bites, mostly on their lips. A newspaper man dubbed it the “kissing bug” for this reason. A Dr. L.O. Howard in Popular Science Monthly, 56-31 rejected that explanation, chalking it up to … [Read more...] about The kissing bug