A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

FEATURING DAIZY HERNANDEZ - As Americans cautiously emerge from a global pandemic, many of us are wondering what’s the next front in the war to protect public health? My next guest writes about a disease most of us have never heard of but that devastated her family and impacts hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. alone. Chagas disease, cause by a parasite is widely prevalent across Latin America. But it has been one of the most neglected diseases by governments, the medical establishment, and the pharmaceutical industry.

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