Tainted syrup kills 25 infants

Source Agencies | November 27, 2008, Thursday |

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NIGERIA'S drug administration agency has closed down a pharmaceuticals manufacturer in the Lagos after contaminated teething syrup killed 25 infants and put at least 10 more in hospital.

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control said yesterday that tests had shown the chemical diethylene glycol, a poisonous substance normally used in engine coolant, had triggered kidney failure in the infants.

The children died at three hospitals across Africa's most populous nation - the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, the UCH hospital in the southwestern town of Ibadan and the ABUTH hospital in the northern town of Zaria.

The agency said the symptoms of the affected infants included diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and convulsions. They were also unable to pass urine for days.

The agency said it had first received reports of a case of possible contamination from the Zaria hospital on November 19 and that it had started confiscating batches of the syrup two days later after carrying out tests.

It said it had shut down the manufacturer, Lagos-based Barewa Pharmaceuticals.

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Tainted syrup kills 25 infants

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