Four-year-old Santiago Arévalo died on April 4, 2011 in Juan Pablo II Hospital in Corrientes, capital of the northeast Argentine province of the same name. He had begun feeling sick six days earlier while playing with his cousin, six-year-old Celeste Estévez in the patio of their house, a ramshackle wood and thatch structure in Puerto Viejo, a rural community on the banks of the Paraná River. There are many such houses in Puerto Viejo. Typically they are surrounded by fields where tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables are grown. Celeste fell sick, too, but she was lucky. Because she fell sick sooner, she received hospital care earlier and eventually was flown 700 kilometers (435 miles) to Buenos Aires and Garrahan Hospital, Argentina’s... [Log in to read more]