November 6, 2007

Importing the deadly Chagas disease – part of looking for a better life in America

Posted by D.A. King at 5:07 pm - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

San Francisco Chronicle
CHEAP LABOR? Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness turning up in U.S. “immigrants”

A Los Angeles County hospital has opened the first clinic in the country devoted to studying and treating Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness that has long been the leading cause of heart failure in Latin America and is now being seen in immigrant communities in the United States…

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