The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease Free Audiobook Download by Daisy Hernández

The Kissing Bug was a letter that Dr. Armando Olivera received in the mail. It was from a mother who had lost her daughter to Chagas disease, with a photo of her beautiful daughter and an explanation of how their family loved to spend time outdoors participating in activities like fishing and swimming. The letter ends with the tragic conclusion: "Once my daughter's bite didn't kill her, she died of other causes."

Daisy Hernández's book is a story about the Caribbean, about the role of gender, about international conflict and ecological destruction. It is also a story about a disease that has killed over 30 people in Puerto Rico since 2001. In her memoir, Hernández tells the story of how she uncovered the cause of the disease and then helped to reduce its spread on the island. She employs her journalistic talent to tell this inspiring story in an engaging way with humor and vivid detail

"The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease," The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernández is the story of how the Chagas parasite was discovered in Texas. One morning in November 2007, Teresa Palacios woke up to find her 8-year-old son, Jesús Rodrigo Palacios, had gone from being a healthy boy to an emaciated figure with jaundiced skin, sunken eyes, and yellow teeth. For years, he had suffered from chronic fever and joint pain. Teresa took him to multiple hospitals and specialists but no one could tell her what caused his symptoms.

Daisy Hernández, a journalist from Nicaragua, published the book in 2013. In this book, she tells her personal story about how a chance encounter with an insect led to the discovery of Chagas disease. The story is a true account of how during a family trip across Nicaragua's countryside, her daughter caught a kissing bug on her arm and inadvertently introduced it into their home. This discovery led to more than twenty family members contracting Chagas disease. Her husband contracted it from his daughter, who was infected from the kissing bug that had been brought by Hernández's husband upon returning from work in Managua to visit the family.

The Kissing Bug is a true story about the decline of Chagas disease in Venezuela. The Kissing Bug offers a glimpse into the inside workings of an infectious disease program in a developing country. The narrator, Frankie Corzo, is the daughter of doctors that are part of Doctors Without Borders and uses her family's story to give readers insight into how diseases that are neglected can lead to catastrophic epidemics.

In 2008, when they were six years old, two sisters woke up to find a tiny brown bug on their face. Their mother ran to get the vacuum cleaner but it got away. When they looked closer, they saw that the bug was actually a kissing bug that had been feeding on them while they slept. The next day, one of them was diagnosed with Chagas disease and died after 12 days of hospitalization.