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Mysterious Kidney Disease 'Devastating' Central America's Pacific Coast, AP Reports
The Associated Press/Seattle Times reports on a "mysterious epidemic [that] 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." The news service provides statistics regarding kidney disease in various Central American countries, quotes a number of experts regarding potential causes of the disease and notes, "While some of the rising numbers may be from better record-keeping, scientists believe they are facing something deadly and previously unknown to medicine."
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