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Article: CHAGAS DISEASE A GROWING CONCERN ILLNESS THAT IS PERVASIVE IN SOUTH AMERICA SHOWING UP MORE IN THE U.S. Illness that is pervasive in South America showing up more in the U.S.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2009
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Byline: Susan Abram, Staff Writer
SYLMAR - The telephone call came three days after Maira Gutierrez donated blood.
"Are you by yourself?" the woman from the American Red Cross asked Gutierrez.
If not, she said, go into another room. They needed to talk in private.
In an indirect way, the woman told Gutierrez that the blood she donated was useless, that a deadly parasite had been found mingling with her plasma, platelets and cells.
The disease, the woman said, was so rare that little information, and surely no treatment, existed. And, Gutierrez later learned from a two-page pamphlet, her survival rate was slim.
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