The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
Title | The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease PDF eBook |
Author | Daisy Hernández |
Publisher | Tin House Books |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1951142535 |
Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection Finalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual Nonfiction A TIME, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Science for the People, WYNC, WBUR Radio Boston, and The Stacks Podcast Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award As heard on Fresh Air 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 for-profit healthcare in the United States, The Kissing Bug reveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and connects us to the lives at the center of it all.
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 780 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Animal industry |
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Title | Legacies of the Turf PDF eBook |
Author | Edward L. Bowen |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2023-05-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1493079417 |
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Statistics of the Colony of New Zealand for the Year ...
Title | Statistics of the Colony of New Zealand for the Year ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1154 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | New Zealand |
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Title | Report on the Alaskan Fur-seal Fisheries, by Edwin W. Sims. August 31, 1906 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Commerce and Labor Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1906 |
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Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Animal Industry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1222 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Domestic animals |
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Title | Ayrshire Herd Book PDF eBook |
Author | Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 926 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Ayrshire cattle |
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