• Photo by Ed Kashi. Sugar cane workers cutting in burned fields, with dust monitors on their chests, as part of the Adelante Initiative at the Ingenio San Antonio, or San Antonio Sugar Mill, in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, on February 24, 2020.

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CKDu: Heat, Health, and Harm

Anna Strasma Anna Strasma, MD, is a nephrologist in the Duke University Division of Nephrology and an affiliate of the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, NC.

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