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Climate change behind mysterious kidney disease: Study

2015-10-09 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Economic Times: A mysterious kidney disease that has killed over 20,000 people in Central America since 2002, and now spreading to other countries including India, may be caused by chronic, severe dehydration linked to global climate change, says a new study. "This could be the first epidemic directly caused by global warming," said one of the researchers Richard Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the US. So far, the manual labourers on sugar cane plantations...

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