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Source: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-...519,full.story
Chagas' disease can cast a silent, lifelong shadow
Chagas is a potentially fatal parasitic disease most often found in Latin American immigrants. There had been little awareness of it in the U.S., but that's changing.
By Erin Loury, Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2012
The cryptic letter arrived a few weeks after Maira Gutierrez donated blood for the first time in 1997. The Red Cross had rejected her blood. It listed a phone number to call...
Chagas' disease can cast a silent, lifelong shadow
Chagas is a potentially fatal parasitic disease most often found in Latin American immigrants. There had been little awareness of it in the U.S., but that's changing.
By Erin Loury, Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2012
The cryptic letter arrived a few weeks after Maira Gutierrez donated blood for the first time in 1997. The Red Cross had rejected her blood. It listed a phone number to call...