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Loyola team shoots ecohealth video in Guatemala to help villagers combat deadly tropical diseases
Loyola press release - February 28, 2014
A Loyola University New Orleans team is spending Mardi Gras in El Guayabo, a small village in Guatemala, to capture on film an innovative approach proven to help villagers in the most impoverished regions stop the threat of Chagas disease and other illnesses caused by poor living conditions. Based on scientific research, the method has the power to change the developing world...
...The group will capture for the first time on film step-by-step instructions for implementing an ecohealth approach to stop the transmission of the deadly tropical Chagas disease. The Chagas parasite infects from 7 to 8 million people in Latin America and also people in the U.S., according to Dorn?s previous research. In 30 to 40 percent of victims, Chagas causes life-threatening heart disease...
Loyola team shoots ecohealth video in Guatemala to help villagers combat deadly tropical diseases
Loyola press release - February 28, 2014
A Loyola University New Orleans team is spending Mardi Gras in El Guayabo, a small village in Guatemala, to capture on film an innovative approach proven to help villagers in the most impoverished regions stop the threat of Chagas disease and other illnesses caused by poor living conditions. Based on scientific research, the method has the power to change the developing world...
...The group will capture for the first time on film step-by-step instructions for implementing an ecohealth approach to stop the transmission of the deadly tropical Chagas disease. The Chagas parasite infects from 7 to 8 million people in Latin America and also people in the U.S., according to Dorn?s previous research. In 30 to 40 percent of victims, Chagas causes life-threatening heart disease...