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Reform signals new strategy against lethal kidney disease

As a deadly epidemic plagues agricultural workers, Costa Rica's president announced new rules to limit heat stress and dehydration.

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From the Archives: What wiped out these Central American sugarcane workers?

The cause is still a mystery but the impact of a dangerous chronic kidney disease was so overwhelming that the Nicaraguan town was rechristened the island of widows.

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