Mystery epidemic devastates Central American region
In town in Nicaragua's sugar-growing heartland, studies have found more than one in four men show symptoms of chronic kidney disease
Next story in Americas Police in Brazil's Bahia end strike before carnival
Estbean Felix / AP
Segundo Zapata Palacios rests in a hospital as his wife Emma Vanegas sits at his bedside in Chinandega, Nicaragua on Jan. 24. Zapata, who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years at the San Antonio sugar plantation, died two days later of chronic kidney disease.
FILADELFO ALEMAN,
MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Updated 2/12/2012 6:13:41 AM ET
link-
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46352358/ns/world_news-americas/