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10,000 Chinese children still sick from milk

BEIJING (AP) -- More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, eight of whom were in serious condition, officials said.... ...full story at AP

from AP on Thu, Oct 09 2008

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22 Sep 08 visit CNN: Four infants in China dead, 53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder. 中國毒奶粉事件繼續延燒-到目前為止已經有五萬三千兒童受害!四人死亡!  »  YouTube video53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder, 13,000 children were hospitalized. The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China's two largest dairy...
09 Oct 08 visit 10,000 children still sick from tainted milk  »  Shanghai Daily MORE than 10,000 children remain hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, officials said, as the government released its first rules on allowable levels of the chemical blamed in the ailments....
01 Dec 08 visit Milk scandal casualty toll rises  »  Shanghai Daily CHINA doubled the possible death toll from melamine-tainted milk powder and raised its estimate of the number of children sickened fivefold. The Ministry of Health said yesterday that six Chinese infants might...
23 Sep 08 visit Got Melamine? 53,000 Chinese Children Did - In Their Milk  »  TreeHugger Image credit::Scrap melamine sample. New York Times Exposure of Chinese infants and children to melamine-tainted milk turns out to have far been worse than was reported a few days ago. Nearly 53,000 are reported now to have been sickened; and the count...
22 Sep 08 visit New mother offers controversial breast value amid China's tainted milk scandal  »  People's Daily A new mother sensing a business opportunity amid China's tainted dairy food scandal has caused fresh controversy by offering to breast feed other children -- at a price. The 32-year-old woman surnamed Huang said she had been producing more milk...
26 Sep 08 visit China to check tainted milk powder scandal after effect  »  People's Daily China's State Council, or Cabinet, on Thursday sends a team of officials to some provinces and autonomous regions to check the aftereffect of a recent tainted milk powder scandal. The team will work to ensure problems arising from the tainted milk...

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