PAHO Issues Recommendations to Strengthen Surveillance on Unusual Kidney Disease Epidemic in Central America
Washington, D.C, August 24, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) – Increasing numbers of young people in vulnerable farming communities in Central America have developed a severe form of kidney failure of uncertain origin. Now the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued detailed recommendations to help countries strengthen or create surveillance systems that will help countries deal with this…