Since the disease almost always kills, usually by causing kidney failure, the patients had little hope.

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The birds are right at the surface, get covered in the oil and swallow it, causing liver and kidney problems.

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Sometimes doctors delivered the polymer to the wrong place, causing internal bleeding and kidney damage.

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It can kill dandelions, but it's nasty stuff, capable of causing nervous system, kidney and liver damage in humans.

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The agency is using toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, forensic chemists and veterinary researchers to investigate whether the treats could be causing dogs to suffer Fanconi syndrome, a kidney disease that can cause the organ to shut down.

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Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.

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