Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., argued Tuesday night that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's economic agenda would continue policies that have left "millions more people in poverty" in the years since President Obama took office.

"The truth of the matter is the policies of this administration which Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue have run this economy into the ditch," Pence said during the vice presidential debate in Virginia. "We're in the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. There are millions more people living in poverty today than the day that Barack Obama, with Hillary Clinton at his side, stepped into the Oval Office."



Pence launched that attack as a rebuttal to Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Clinton's running mate, who dubbed Trump a "you're fired president" and promisedChagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it "the new AIDS of the Americas."

More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States.

The editorial, published by the Public Library of Science's Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV.

"There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living with HIV/AIDS," the authors wrote, "particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."

[Related: U.S. relief program prevented 741,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in Africa]

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