Sonntag, 12. Februar 2012

Mystery disease claims thousands in Central America

Segundo Zapata Palacios rests in a hospital as his wife Emma Vanegas sits at his bedside in Chinandega, Nicaragua on Jan. 24. Zapata, who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years at the San Antonio sugar plantation, died two days later of chronic kidney disease.A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else.




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