Chagas' disease can cast a silent, lifelong shadow
Sunday, July 8, 2012 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
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.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.