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Mystery epidemic devastates Central American region

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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

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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.

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MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN

Updated 2/12/2012 6:13:41 AM ET

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