Is Monsanto’s Roundup linked to a deadly kidney disease?

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By John UptonMay 1, 2014, 4:43 pm68 pts
Entire communities of sugar-farm laborers in Central America are being crippled by a sometimes deadly kidney malady — and nobody knows why. But some think the herbicide glyphosate, sold by Monsanto under the name Roundup, may be connected to the epidemic. NPR reports on the rash of illnesses: The first…

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