The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

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,…

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