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Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 02:00
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Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
410 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Nigerian medical authorities are flying in 100 doses of an antidote to try and stem the deaths of babies poisoned by a contaminated teething syrup. The number of children who have died from kidney failure after being given the tainted paracetamol-based remedy called "My Pikin" has risen to 34.

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Food & Health [4]
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Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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