Sugar Cane Workers and Chronic Liver Failure
January 29, 2014 9:16 AM Subscribe
In El Salvador and Nicaragua, Chronic Kidney Failure accounts for more deaths than HIV, diabetes, and leukemia combined. In affected communities, 69% of sugar cane workers are affected. "CKDu" is the second leading cause of death in El Salvador among men, and between 20 and 25 thousand men have died in the last 8 years of the disease. NYT Photos.
There is a crowdfunding effort to document Fatal Chronic Kidney Disease among Nicaragua's Sugarcane Workers.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems like a worthwhile project, but we've got a pretty firm "no fundraisers as posts" rule at this point on the front page. -- cortex
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