PAGE 227 The city’s health department put the blame: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, “Health Department Releases New Tuberculosis Data Showing 10 Percent Increase in Cases in 2017,” press release, March 26, 2018.
PAGE 227 The bacteria that cause tuberculosis have adjusted: Helen Branswell, “Spread of Highly Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Sparks Concerns,” STAT, January 18, 2017.
PAGE 227 New York City officials began reporting the death toll: Jeffery C. Mays and Andy Newman, “Virus Is Twice as Deadly for Black and Latino People Than Whites in N.Y.C.,” New York Times, April 8, 2020.
PAGE 227 In Louisiana, 70 percent of those who died from Covid-19 were black: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “The Black Plague,” The New Yorker, April 16, 2020.
PAGE 227 in Utah, where Latinx women and men constitute 14 percent: Nate Carlisle and Sean P. Means, “With Utah Latinos Suffering COVID-19 Disproportionately, Gov. Gary Herbert Creates a Multicultural Advisory Panel,” Salt Lake Tribune, April 23, 2020.
PAGE 227 While a number of health officials and politicians cited: Jossie Carreras Tartak and Hazar Khidir, “U.S. Must Avoid Building Racial Bias Into COVID-19 Emergency Guidance,” NPR, April 21, 2020.
PAGE 228 New York City’s comptroller found another reason: Mays and Newman, “Virus Is Twice as Deadly for Black and Latino People Than Whites in N.Y.C.”
PAGE 229 One morning, I clicked on a New York Times story: Nelson D. Schwartz, “The Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000,” New York Times, June 3, 2017.
PAGE 230 If we live in a region of the country where many people: Mark V. Pauly and José A. Pagán, “Spillovers and Vulnerability: The Case of Community Uninsurance,” Health Affairs 26, no. 5 (September/October 2007). This is also the source for the information on studies about access to mammograms and prenatal care.
SOATÁ
PAGE 239 She was taking fake flowers to a country: Damian Paletta, “In Rose Beds, Money Blooms,” Washington Post, February 10, 2018.
PAGE 240 Colombia was taking on the kissing bug: Andrea Marchiol et al., “Increasing Access to Comprehensive Care for Chagas Disease: Development of a Patient-Centered Model in Colombia,” Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 41 (December 2017).
PAGE 240 No, Colombia did not have high rates of the disease: World Health Organization, “Chagas Disease in Latin America: An Epidemiological Update Based on 2010 Estimates,” Weekly Epidemiological Record 90, no. 6 (February 6, 2015) 33–43.
PAGE 240 in 2013, it had become the first country in the world: Marchiol et al., “Increasing Access to Comprehensive Care.”
PAGE 240 onchocerciasis, a disease I still cannot quite comprehend: Mark J. Taylor, Achim Hoerauf, and Moses Bockarie, “Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis,” Lancet 376, no. 9747 (October 2010): 1175–85.
PAGE 240 The defeat of river blindness had apparently encouraged: Marchiol et al., “Increasing Access to Comprehensive Care.”
PAGE 240 Along with Doctors Without Borders, they signed an agreement: Daisy Hernández, “A New Strategy to Undermine Big Pharma’s Price Gouging Actually Worked,” Slate, September 7, 2017.
PAGE 240 When I started packing my bags for Colombia: Courtney Columbus, “Drug for ’Neglected’ Chagas Disease Gains FDA Approval Amid Price Worries,” NPR, September 10, 2017.
PAGE 241 The company began talks to donate benznidazole: World Health Organization, “Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of Chagas Disease: From Control to Elimination,” November 16, 2018.
PAGE 242 The civil war in Colombia, which had raged: Sebastian Modak, “How Colombia, Once Consumed by Violence, Became Your Next Destination,” Condé Nast Traveler, November 9, 2017.
PAGE 243 The town does not have high rates of the kissing bug disease: Marchiol et al., “Increasing Access to Comprehensive Care.”
PAGE 249 Birds are resistant to T. cruzi: Ricardo E. Gürtler et al., “Domestic Dogs and Cats as Sources of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Rural Northwestern Argentina,” Parasitology 134, no. 1 (January 2007): 69–82.
HER LIFE
PAGE 261 One of the dictionaries is bilingual: Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena et al., New Revised Velázquez Spanish and English Dictionary (New Jersey: New Win Publishing, 1985), 635.
PAGE 262 It details a dicho, or saying, that when a woman doesn’t marry: Diccionario de la Lengua Española, 21st ed., s.v. “Tía” (Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1992).
PAGE 262 The saying “No hay tu tía” is thought to come from Arabic: Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, 1st edition, s.v. “Tutia” (Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2005).
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DAISY HERNÁNDEZ is a former reporter for The New York Times and has been writing about the intersections of race, immigration, class, and sexuality for almost two decades. She has written for National Geographic, NPR’s All Things Considered and Code Switch, The Atlantic, Slate, and Guernica, and she’s the former editor of Colorlines, a newsmagazine on race and politics. Hernández is the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She is an associate professor at Miami University in Ohio.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2020057435 | ISBN 9781951142520 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781951142537 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Chagas’ disease. | Communicable diseases--United States--Social aspects. | Communicable diseases--United States--Political aspects. | Epidemics--United States--History--20th century. | Families--Health and hygiene--Biography.
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