I became familiar with this Chagas disease twenty years ago when I worked in extremely remote areas of Bolivia and Peru and found that the disease was prevalent within much of the population.
At the time, very little research had been done on Chagas disease simply because it only affected rural peasants who couldn’t afford treatment even if a cure could have been found. We were told that Chagas disease didn’t infect urban elites because the Chagas beetle could only live within the thatched roofs of these peasants’ homes and couldn’t live elsewhere, and if the disease ever began to infect people outside the rural poor population, research and a cure would be forthcoming.
Well, it appears as if the time has come for pharmaceutical companies to gain a return on their campaign contributions.
Very interesting...Obama digs deep in the third world to secure our demise. All by design.