Indigenous Science and Knowledge Unite Against Chagas Evil

An innovative project to deal with Chagas disease, which integrates traditional indigenous knowledge with scientific medical experience, is being carried out in northern Colombia In the community of Machín, home to the Wiwa indigenous people, in the region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, one in three people lives with Chagas disease, which affects from newborns to older people and if it is not treated it can cause irreversible d…