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China: 6 babies may have died from tainted milk

Published: Dec 01, 2008

China's Health Ministry said six babies may have died after consuming tainted milk powder, up from a previous official figure of three deaths.

Health authorities across the country also found that 294,000 babies had suffered from urinary problems after consuming milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, the ministry said in a statement late Monday.

The Health Ministry's previous count stood at three deaths, with more than 50,000 babies sickened.

Six babies had possibly died from drinking tainted milk powder, the statement said, with four of the cases recorded in the provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou and Shaanxi, and the other two in Gansu province in the northwest. More

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