Nigeria Poison Drugs | Poisoned medicine kills dozens of children in Nigeria

December 18, 2008 by frankls
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Poisoned medicine kills dozens of children in Nigeria
Nneka and Chimezie Ononaku unwittingly poisoned their own four-month-old son Chinonso.

Giving him what they thought was a baby teething medicine, they were in fact dosing him with anti-freeze.
The bottle had been contaminated with a toxic chemical called diethylene glycol.

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