Mystery epidemic kills thousands in Central America

A mysterious epidemic has claimed 24,000 lives in the last 12 years along the Pacific Coast of Central America, reported Fox News Latino.
The mystery disease, which has also left thousands with chronic kidney disease, has effected mainly manual labor and other workers on sugar cane fields. The disease has been seen all over Central America, but mainly in El Salvador and Nicaragua
Last year El Salvador's health minister, Dr. Maria Isabel Rodriguez, reached out to the world for help, "saying the epidemic was undermining health systems," reported the Huffington Post.
There is speculation that hose effected, including construction workers, miners and other labor workers, may have gotten the disease from the many chemicals involved in their work, according to the Huffington Post.