In Texas, something unseen is stealing the health of young workers in the prime of their lives — their kidneys failing not slowly, but suddenly, without the usual warnings that medicine has learned to read. These are people who, by every conventional measure, should not be sick, and yet they are, in numbers enough to suggest a shared cause that no one has yet named. It is the kind of mystery that exposes the limits of what we know, and reminds us that the environment we move through each day can carry dangers long before we think to look for them.
Mysterious kidney disease strikes young, healthy Texas workers
Young, healthy workers are experiencing acute kidney failure requiring medical intervention.