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ICYMI there has been a ongoing 20+ year epidemic of kidney disease in Central American manual laborers, no one has pinned down an exact cause yet but it definit
by stevenwoo 2y ago
ICYMI there has been a ongoing 20+ year epidemic of kidney disease in Central American manual laborers, no one has pinned down an exact cause yet but it definitely seems to be heat exposure related. Not quite as scary as something that resembles CJD but lots of researchers looking into for a long time without finding definitive cause.
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/central-american-kidney-disease-epidemic-linked-to-occupational-heat-exposure/ https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/central-american-k...
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/26/753834371/whatever-happened-to-the-mysterious-kidney-disease-striking-central-america https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/26/7538343...