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092 0 616.9|bengelska
100 1 Hernández, Daisy|4aut
245 14 The kissing bug :|ba true story of a family, an insect,
and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease /|cDaisy
Hernández
250 First US edition
264 1 Portland, Oregon :|bTin House,|c[2021]
264 4 |c©2021
300 308 pages|c23 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references
520 "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, and even into her thirties, she only knew that
her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. 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. Today, more than three hundred
thousand Americans have Chagas. Why do some infectious
diseases make headlines and others fall by the wayside?
After her aunt's death, Hernández begins searching for
answers about who our nation chooses to take care of and
who we ignore. Crisscrossing the country, she interviews
patients, epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the
Department of Defense. She learns that outside of Latin
America, the United States is the only country with the
native insects--the "kissing bugs"--that carry the Chagas
parasite. She spends a night in southwest Texas hunting
the dreaded bug with university researchers. She also gets
to know patients, like a mother whose premature baby was
born infected with the parasite, his heart already
damaged. And she meets one cardiologist battling the
disease in Los Angeles County with local volunteers. The
Kissing Bug tells the story of how poverty, racism, and
public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden
--and how the disease intersects with Hernández's own
identity as a niece, sister, and daughter; a queer woman;
a writer and researcher; and a citizen of a country that
is only beginning to address the harms caused by Chagas,
and the dangers it poses. 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"--
|cProvided by publisher
520 Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s,
Hernández only knew that her aunt had died of a rare
illness called Chagas. Digging deeper, she discovered more
than three hundred thousand Americans have Chagas-- or the
kissing bug disease. Why do some infectious diseases make
headlines and others fall by the wayside? Hernández
interviews patients, epidemiologists, and even
veterinarians with the Department of Defense. Outside of
Latin America, the United States is the only country with
the native insects that carry the Chagas parasite.
Hernández show how poverty, racism, and public policies
have conspired to keep this disease hidden. -- adapted
from jacket
648 7 1900-1999|2fast
650 0 Chagas' disease
650 0 Communicable diseases|xSocial aspects|zUnited States
650 0 Communicable diseases|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States
650 0 Epidemics|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century
650 0 Families|xHealth and hygiene|vBiography
650 2 Chagas Disease
650 2 Communicable Diseases
650 7 Chagas' sjukdom|2sao
650 7 Smittsamma sjukdomar|2sao
650 7 Epidemier|2sao
650 7 Fattigdom|2sao
650 7 Rasism|2sao
650 7 Sjukvård|2sao
650 7 Epidemier|xhistoria|2sao
650 7 MEDICAL / Internal Medicine.|2bisacsh
650 7 Chagas' disease.|2fast
650 7 Epidemics.|2fast
650 7 Communicable diseases|xPolitical aspects.|2fast
650 7 Communicable diseases|xSocial aspects.|2fast
650 7 Families|xHealth and hygiene.|2fast
651 7 Förenta staterna|2sao
651 7 United States.|2fast
655 0 Biography
655 7 Biografier|2saogf
655 7 Biographies.|2fast
655 7 History.|2fast
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
