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Marion Biotech is among three Indian companies whose cough syrups the WHO and other agencies have linked to the deaths of 141 children in Uzbekistan, Gambia and Cameroon, in one of the world's worst such waves of poisoning.
Scores of young children have suffered poisoning symptoms amid a government campaign to battle iodine deficiencies. This is the second health crisis to rock the country in a year after imported cough syrup led to the deaths of 65 children. Yet this time, the government is more deeply involved.