The
AP 
(2/13, Aleman, Weissenstein) reports, "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." While "patients, local doctors and activists
say they believe the culprit lurks among the agricultural chemicals,"
others suggest that the illness is due to working "hour after hour
without enough water in blazing temperatures," starting "as young as
10. The punishing routine appears to be a key part of some previously
unknown trigger of chronic kidney disease, which is normally caused by
diabetes and high blood pressure, maladies absent in most of the
patients in Central America."
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