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Daily Mirror
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Rachel Hagan

Worldwide health alert over contaminated cough syrup after almost 170 children die

A worldwide health alert has been issued with a ban on selling cough syrup and liquid medicine in some areas after hundreds of children across the globe died.

The death of nearly 100 children in Indonesia has prompted the government to ban sales of all syrup and liquid medicine prescriptions and over-the-counter sales.

It comes just weeks after a cough syrup in Gambia was linked to the deaths of nearly 70 children.

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