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Las Casitas, Honduras – June 2001
Marcelino, 10, and Lidia, 6, are infected with the parasite causing Chagas disease. They live with their parents in a small, straw-roofed mud hut, high on a hillside, a two and a half hours walk from the nearest health centre.
Chagas disease, a rare parasitic ailment transmitted by small bugs, is endemic in the mountainous regions of central Honduras.