CC is bad for your kidneys
Thousands of people laboring in hot temperatures have been succumbing to a deadly kidney disease, and as the planet warms, the problem is likely to spread
mysterious and deadly kidney disease has been plaguing laborers in the sugar fields of Central America. In the past 20 years, some 20,000 workers have died of the disease, and the crisis has been growing worse.
At first the epidemic was thought to be caused by chemicals such as pesticides, but the disease only affected laborers in coastal areas – those working at higher altitude in hills were largely unaffected.
A recent study found that hard work in the hot climate of the lowlands left workers dehydrated, putting such a heavy strain on their kidneys that it fatally damaged them. “When it’s extremely hot, the risk for kidney damage really begins to become evident,” said Richard Johnson of the University of Colorado, Denver.
Similar epidemics of kidney disease were also found in farm workers in other hot climates, in Sri Lanka, Egypt and Andhra Pradesh in India. And as global temperatures rise and heat waves become more intense, so the new type of kidney disease is increasing...
