Сімейна Кістозна Гіпоплазія Легень: Клінічне Спостереження

Bodnar, L. P.; Bodnar, Ya. Ya.; Orel, Yu. M.; Bodnar, P. Ya.

doi:10.11603/2414-4533.2018.4.9722

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“…Ratana, and Dr. Jayasumana, lead author of the Arsenic+glyphosate+hardwater etiology of CKDu were powerful figures in the new government. Even the American Association for advancement of science ended up making wrong decisions in awarding a prize (Bodnar 2019) to Dr. Channa Jayasumana and Dr. Sanath Gunatilleke who "battled corporate interests while determining the cause of a kidney disease epidemic that claimed tens of thousands of lives"! Why was the co-author Ms. Seananayake, the clairvoyant lady, excluded from the AAAS prize?…”

Section: Consequence Of Dubious Etiological Claims Causing Public Fearmentioning

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Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) – The Search for Causes and the Impact of Its Politicization

Dharma‐wardana¹

2023

Medical Geology

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Kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) has been identified in many countries extending from MesoAmerica and Egypt, to South-east Asia and China. Although CKDu has been linked by various authors to farming, it is an artifact of treating multi-modal disease distributions as unimodal. There is NO correlation of CKDu with agriculture since affected farming villages are often surrounded by other farming villages free of CKDu. Initial studies looked for a correlation of CKDu with toxic heavy metal residues of arsenic, cadmium etc., or herbicides like glyphosate that may be present in the environment, as the causative factors. There is now considerable consensus that their concentrations are below danger thresholds, be it in Mesoamerica or south-east Asia. The conceptual basis of a search for etiology within a systems approach is discussed, and attempts to name the disease to bias the identification of its etiology are reviewed. Current research has narrowed down the etiology to geochemical electrolytic contaminants like fluorides and ionic components in hard water, nanosilica (found in water as well as in the air), as well as renal toxins similar to indoxyl sulphates that may arise from interactions of ions with humic acids contained in aqueous organic matter. However, while agrochemical toxins are increasingly considered less relevant to the etiology of CKDu, it has become a firm public belief. In Sri Lanka this has spawned ideology-based agricultural policies for partial and complete banning of agrochemicals (2014-2021), followed by some back-tracking, disrupting the economy and the food supply. A farmer's uprising in 2022 was spawned by poor harvests. It triggered a larger popular uprising that led to the collapse of a government wedded to romanticized eco-extremist agricultural policies in a country already facing difficulties in the wake of Covid and Ukraine.

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Section: Consequence Of Dubious Etiological Claims Causing Public Fearmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) – The Search for Causes and the Impact of Its Politicization

Dharma‐wardana¹

2023

Medical Geology

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Сімейна Кістозна Гіпоплазія Легень: Клінічне Спостереження

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Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) – The Search for Causes and the Impact of Its Politicization

Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) – The Search for Causes and the Impact of Its Politicization

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