A Puzzling Kidney Disease Epidemic Is Sweeping Through The Tropics

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There has been an increase of CKDu in sugar cane workers in Central America. satit_srihin/Shutterstock

Scores of men living in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are being diagnosed with a chronic kidney disease, and yet researchers have no idea what is causing this sudden epidemic of cases. Normally, patients who are diagnosed with the disease either have diabetes or hypertension before the problem develops further, and yet these new patients have no previous reported health issues.