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COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD *********************************** https://hura2misifoya-foya.blogspot.com/?update=1951142527 *********************************** The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease strong As heard on em Fresh Air em strong strong Named a Best Book of Summer by BuzzFeed and em Newsweek em strong strong “Lyrical, unflinching…. Hernández expertly skates the line between memoir and science tome, showing the personal effects of a disease perpetuated by a cascade of systemic failures.” ? em The Washington Post em strong strong “A necessary read for anyone concerned about health crises across the world.” ? em The Boston Globe em strong strong “Part memoir, part investigative thriller….. Her book shines a light on [a] neglected harm.” ? em The San Francisco Chronicle em strong Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive system. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas?or the kissing bug disease?is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus.After her aunt’s death, H

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strong As heard on em Fresh Air em strong strong Named a Best Book of Summer by BuzzFeed and em Newsweek em strong strong “Lyrical, unflinching…. Hernández expertly skates the line between memoir and science tome, showing the personal effects of a disease perpetuated by a cascade of systemic failures.” ? em The Washington Post em strong strong “A necessary read for anyone concerned about health crises across the world.” ? em The Boston Globe em strong strong “Part memoir, part investigative thriller….. Her book shines a light on [a] neglected harm.” ? em The San Francisco Chronicle em strong Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive system. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas?or the kissing bug disease?is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus.After her aunt’s death, H

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strong As heard on em Fresh Air em strong strong Named a

Best Book of Summer by BuzzFeed and em Newsweek em

strong strong “Lyrical, unflinching…. Hernández expertly

skates the line between memoir and science tome, showing

the personal effects of a disease perpetuated by a cascade of

systemic failures.” ? em The Washington Post em strong

strong “A necessary read for anyone concerned about health

crises across the world.” ? em The Boston Globe em strong

strong “Part memoir, part investigative thriller….. Her book

shines a light on [a] neglected harm.” ? em The San Francisco

Chronicle em strong Growing up in a New Jersey factory town

in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had

become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family,

in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious

diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt

had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects

the heart and digestive system. But as Hernández dug deeper,

she discovered that Chagas?or the kissing bug disease?is

more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus.After

her aunt’s death, Hernández began searching for answers.

Crisscrossing the country, she interviewed patients, doctors,

epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the Department

of Defense. She learned that in the United States more than

three hundred thousand people in the Latinx community have

Chagas, and that outside of Latin America, this is the only

country with the native insects?the “kissing bugs”?that carry

the Chagas parasite.Through unsparing, gripping, and humane

portraits, Hernández chronicles a story vast in scope and

urgent in its implications, exposing how poverty, racism, and

public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden. A

riveting and nuanced investigation into racial politics and


forprofit healthcare in the United States, em The Kissing Bug

em reveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and

connects us to the lives at the center of it all. em em

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