Time To Close The Southern Border

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[garbage can]

Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America

By FILADELFO ALEMAN and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press

CHICHIGALPA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.

Three years ago his kidneys started to fail and flooded his body with toxins. He became too weak to work, wracked by cramps, headaches and vomiting.

On Jan. 19 he died on the porch of his house. He was 51. His withered body was dressed by his weeping wife, embraced a final time, then carried in the bed of a pickup truck to a grave on the edge of Chichigalpa, a town in Nicaragua's sugar-growing heartland, where studies have found more than one in four men showing symptoms of chronic kidney disease.

A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else. Scientists say they have received reports of the phenomenon as far north as southern Mexico and as far south as Panama.

More here:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-02-12-00-00-37

It's not called Mescal is it....???.... or would that be liver...??

 

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[ksmybuttons]

Looks like the research so far says it's about extreme manual labor and dehydration... .

 

[garbage can]

Looks like the research so far says it's about extreme manual labor and dehydration... .

That's what I just said... dehydration, from lack of Mescal...........

 

[RobDownSouth]

I reckon so...I can just see a bunch of those fuckers coming up here to get treatment and bringing it with them.

When faced with a problem, vetteman often counsels running away from it. After all, that technique worked so well for him in the 'Nam!

 

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[SgtSpiderMan]

When faced with a problem, vetteman often counsels running away from it. After all, that technique worked so well for him in the 'Nam!

When faced with a problem Vette calls on the government to protect him.

 

[Ham Murabi]

I blame global warming.

 

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[koalabear]

I really miss Ken,maybe he will comeback when he sees this heart

 

[coastal-boy]

Fuck that...what states would be hit first? California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Bring that fucker here.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

That's one thing we pay the idiot you voted for to do, dummy.

Now you want him to protect illegal aliens who are here? Make up your mind.

 

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[Peregrinator]

The roots of the epidemic, scientists say, appear to lie in the grueling nature of the work performed by its victims, including construction workers, miners and others who labor hour after hour without enough water in blazing temperatures, pushing their bodies through repeated bouts of extreme dehydration and heat stress for years on end. Many start as young as 10. The punishing routine appears to be a key part of some previously unknown trigger of chronic kidney disease, which is normally caused by diabetes and high-blood pressure, maladies absent in most of the patients in Central America.

"The thing that evidence most strongly points to is this idea of manual labor and not enough hydration," said Daniel Brooks, a professor of epidemiology at Boston University's School of Public Health, who has worked on a series of studies of the kidney disease epidemic.


Solution: Unions+OSHA.

 

[badbabysitter]

this is what I've been saying for years

oh wait.. you meant YOUR southern borders

hmmmmm.. well... it's still a good idea

 

[koalabear]

The roots of the epidemic, scientists say, appear to lie in the grueling nature of the work performed by its victims, including construction workers, miners and others who labor hour after hour without enough water in blazing temperatures, pushing their bodies through repeated bouts of extreme dehydration and heat stress for years on end. Many start as young as 10. The punishing routine appears to be a key part of some previously unknown trigger of chronic kidney disease, which is normally caused by diabetes and high-blood pressure, maladies absent in most of the patients in Central America.

"The thing that evidence most strongly points to is this idea of manual labor and not enough hydration," said Daniel Brooks, a professor of epidemiology at Boston University's School of Public Health, who has worked on a series of studies of the kidney disease epidemic.


Solution: Unions+OSHA.

Good job for you lib, go there and start unions and osha

 

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[koalabear]

If Ronald Reagan hadn't fought the Communists it would have never happened.

OSHA does their best work after the accident.

 

[coastal-boy]

OSHA does their best work after the accident.

^^Coming from someone that obviously never had to deal with them.

 

[KRCummings]

I reckon so...I can just see a bunch of those fuckers coming up here to get treatment and bringing it with them.

You didn't actually read the article, did you?

 

[koalabear]

^^Coming from someone that obviously never had to deal with them.

Idiot, they have to give you 72 hours notice to visit any where.

 

[coastal-boy]

Idiot, they have to give you 72 hours notice to visit any where.

wrong...not if they had a complaint.

 

[koalabear]

wrong...not if they had a complaint.

"if". bail out! bail out! They are just another government run joke bought off by big business.

 

[miles]

For God's sake shut up.

Spidey always has the last word whether it makes sense or not.