Saturday 15 November 2014

Rat poison chemical found in pills linked to India sterilization deaths

Women, who underwent sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation camp, pose for pictures at Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh By Aditya Kalra BILASPUR India (Reuters) - Tablets linked to the deaths of more than a dozen women who visited a sterilization camp in eastern India are likely to have contained a chemical compound commonly used in rat poison, a senior official in Chhattisgarh state said on Saturday. Preliminary tests of the antibiotic ciprocin tablets were found to contain zinc phosphide, Siddhartha Pardeshi, the chief administrator for the Bilaspur district told Reuters. The antibiotics were handed out at the mass sterilization held a week ago in the impoverished state. ...




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