Chagas disease affects people primarily in rural Latin America. But it’s increasingly present in the United States, where it often goes unrecognized.
, who runs a Chagas testing clinic in northern Virginia. “We were taught that it is something we don’t see in the United States.”
Chagas initially produces flu-like symptoms but can then go unnoticed for decades while it reproduces in the body. Drug treatments can sometimes eradicate the parasite, especially in its first stages, but the window for early detection is short: It does not stay in the bloodstream for long, instead migrating to tissues and organs, where it is harder to detect.
“It is a disease resulting from systemic failures in the health care system,” said writer Daisy Hernández, author of “: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease.” In her book, Hernández tells the story of her aunt Dora, who was diagnosed with Chagas in the U.S.
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