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About Chagas disease Questions about Chagas disease and how it affects your health and the health of your pets. How is Chagas disease spread? Where do kissing bugs live? Am I at risk?
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“I was their mystery patient, with a fever as high as 107 for around two weeks, they tried everything they could think of. Isolation, ice baths, iron lung, antibiotics…”

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“Some of my close friends think I’m contagious and won’t share a glass with me. But I feel completely fine, I’m healthy and I know that I’ll be ok. I want to start a family.”

“I’m not scared to be diagnosed with this disease, I just want to know. We all will die some way.”

“I was getting an EKG at Olive View Hospital and a nurse told me: ‘You can’t have Chagas, you are white.’”

“He was very devout and we would hold gatherings and he would also compose songs that we would always sing together,” recalls Raquel.

 

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