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When she was 18 years old, Idalia Isabel (Yaya) donated blood for a relative who had broken his hip in his city, Xalapa, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. What was supposed to be a routine blood collection ended in complications. And blood tests were performed over and over again until her arm turned purple. A week later, she was on a stretcher in the epidemiology area of the hospital, surrounded by doctors who told her they had discovered that she was suffering from Chagas disease.
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Real names have been substituted with pseudonyms.
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Local name for triatomines.
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Local name for insects.
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Form of horse blanket used as mattress in rural areas of Latin America.
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Open bus.
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Sancho, F.J., Forsyth, C.J., Nieto-Sanchez, C., Baus, E.G., de la Torre Ávila, L. (2020). People Voices. In: Pinazo Delgado, MJ., Gascón, J. (eds) Chagas Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44054-1_14
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