The illness causes serious heart disease in an estimated 30% of infected people and can also lead to severe digestive problems.
, who runs a Chagas testing clinic in northern Virginia. “We were taught that it is something we don’t see in the United States.”
Dr. Rachel Marcus, a cardiologist and the medical director of the Latin American Society of Chagas, runs a Chagas testing clinic in Northern Virginia. “We were taught that it is something we don’t see in the United States,” she says.Chagas initially produces flu-like symptoms but can then go unnoticed for decades while it reproduces in the body.
“It is a disease resulting from systemic failures in the health care system,” said writer Daisy Hernández, author of “: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease.” In her book, Hernández tells the story of her aunt Dora, who was diagnosed with Chagas in the U.S.
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