print email comment close The Kiss of Death: Chagas' Disease in the Americas URL: http://www.uta.edu/chagas/ Description: Background from 1998 about this debilitating disease caused by a parasite that "affects an estimated 18 to 20 million people in Central, South America, and the United States" and whose symptoms may not be visible for many years. Topics include symptoms, spread of the disease from South America, prevention (such as personal hygiene and insecticides), disease biology, ethnomedicine, and social and cultural issues. From the University of Texas at Arlington. Author: Bastien, Joseph Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington LII Database Information: Record 24874 created by Maria Brandt on 11/06/2007 Last modification on 11/20/2007 Published: 11/29/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24874