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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- UTEP researchers have found unusually high levels in the Borderland of parasitic infection in insects that transmit Chagas disease. Chagas disease is spread by blood-feeding ...

My husband and I have a 4-year-old daughter, “Hannah.” We spent Christmas at his sister “Abigail’s” place. She and her husband have a 15-month-old daughter, “Audrey.” The day after Christmas, Hannah ...