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Michael McClean, a researcher at Boston University's School of Public Health, meets with members of ASOCHIVIDA (Chichigalpa Association for Life), a group of chronic kidney disease patients, and workers of the National Sugar Estates Limited.![nicaragua1]()
Michael McClean, Rebecca Laws and Oriana Ramirez Rubio, researchers at Boston University's School of Public Health, meet with members of ASOCHIVIDA (Chichigalpa Association for Life) and National Sugar Estates Limited.![nicaragua4]()
A field worker at the Ingenio San Antonio sugar plantation. Researchers spent months looking into whether the company was violating health and safety procedures -- causing many to come down with chronic kidney disease. No violations have been found.![nicaragua3]()
Michael McClean and members of both the Chichigalpa Association for Life and National Sugar Estates Limited.![nicaragua5]()
A meeting of the members of Chichigalpa Association for Life.A Public Health Mystery in Nicaragua
Thousands of young men in Nicaragua are dying of a disease that usually strikes the old: chronic kidney disease.
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- A Public Health Mystery in Nicaragua
