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Mysterious disease may be tied to climate change, says researcher
2015-10-11 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A mysterious kidney disease that has killed over 20,000 people in Central America, most of them sugar cane workers, may be caused by chronic, severe dehydration linked to global climate change, according to a new study by Richard J. Johnson, MD, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. "This could be the first epidemic directly caused by global warming," said Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an expert on the underlying causes of...
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