Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hern?ndez believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that...
Who does the United States take care of, and who does it leave behind? A necessary investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit healthcare-and the harm caused by decades of neglect. Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s,...