Growing up, Daisy Hernández was told that her aunt had become ill from eating a bad apple. She watched as her aunt became sicker and sicker, and didn’t learn until years later that she was living with <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kissing-bug-chagas-disease/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri?" target="_blank">Chagas disease.</a> It affects around 8 million people, mostly across the Americas, and yet many of us have never heard of it.Hernandez’s book, The Kissing Bug, is SciFri’s first <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club/" target="_blank">book club pick</a> of the year. Host Flora Lichtman speaks with Hernández about her book, the story of her aunt who died of Chagas, and how a disease that affects so many people can be so neglected. Read an excerpt of <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/kissing-bug-book-excerpt-chagas-disease/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease.</a>Guest: Daisy Hernández is a journalist and the author of The Kissing Bug. She’s based in Chicago.Transcripts for each episode are available within 1-3 days at <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kissing-bug-chagas-disease/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri?" target="_blank">sciencefriday.com.</a>
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