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October 15, 2012 03:17 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2IoF6-eCKiU/why-is-a-mysterious-kidney-dis.html
Why is a mysterious kidney disease killing sugar-cane workers in Central America?
"It goes by many names, but around here they call it 'the malady of the sugar cane," writes Will Storr in the Guardian. A quiet epidemic has been preying on Central American sugar field laborers for decades, and it is killing more and more each year. "Between 2005 and 2009, incidents in El Salvador rose [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2IoF6-eCKiU/why-is-a-mysterious-kidney-dis.html
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