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23-10-2022, 01:10 PM
Mike Ives
Sat, 22 October 2022 at 2:09 am
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The four medicines linked to the deaths in Gambia were produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals, a company based in New Delhi that exports medicines across the developing world.
The WHO’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters on Oct. 5 that the agency was conducting an investigation. In a medical product alert issued the same day, the agency said that analysis of the four medicines had found “unacceptable” amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, two industrial chemicals that are toxic to people and can cause serious injury or death in children. The next day, health authorities in Gambia ordered a recall of the four tainted products.
The police in Gambia later said that the deaths of 69 children from acute kidney injury were linked to the four cough syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals.
Last week, authorities in India said they had suspended all manufacturing by the company after discovering violations at its factory in Haryana state, outside New Delhi.
Are the Indonesia deaths related?
At this point, there is no evidence of that.
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India has said that Maiden’s tainted products were sent only to Gambia, but the WHO has said that they may have been distributed to other countries.
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Diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are clear, colorless and syrupy alcohols used for antifreeze and other industrial applications. Unlike the kind of alcohol that humans drink safely, they are potentially deadly even in small quantities.
The effects of ingesting them can include headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and inability to urinate. The chemicals can also damage the liver, kidneys and central nervous system.
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Diethylene glycol has been used in the past as a cheap substitute for glycerin, a sweet syrup that is a safe ingredient in many over-the-counter drugs.
That has sometimes led to mass poisonings. At least 84 children died in Nigeria in 2009 after taking a medicine for teething pain that contained diethylene glycol.
In India, 33 children died in 1998 after taking a contaminated cough expectorant. Eight children also died that year after taking paracetemol syrup. Both of those products contained diethylene glycol.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/heres-know-cou...28493.html
Sat, 22 October 2022 at 2:09 am
......
The four medicines linked to the deaths in Gambia were produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals, a company based in New Delhi that exports medicines across the developing world.
The WHO’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters on Oct. 5 that the agency was conducting an investigation. In a medical product alert issued the same day, the agency said that analysis of the four medicines had found “unacceptable” amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, two industrial chemicals that are toxic to people and can cause serious injury or death in children. The next day, health authorities in Gambia ordered a recall of the four tainted products.
The police in Gambia later said that the deaths of 69 children from acute kidney injury were linked to the four cough syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals.
Last week, authorities in India said they had suspended all manufacturing by the company after discovering violations at its factory in Haryana state, outside New Delhi.
Are the Indonesia deaths related?
At this point, there is no evidence of that.
......
India has said that Maiden’s tainted products were sent only to Gambia, but the WHO has said that they may have been distributed to other countries.
......
Diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are clear, colorless and syrupy alcohols used for antifreeze and other industrial applications. Unlike the kind of alcohol that humans drink safely, they are potentially deadly even in small quantities.
The effects of ingesting them can include headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and inability to urinate. The chemicals can also damage the liver, kidneys and central nervous system.
......
Diethylene glycol has been used in the past as a cheap substitute for glycerin, a sweet syrup that is a safe ingredient in many over-the-counter drugs.
That has sometimes led to mass poisonings. At least 84 children died in Nigeria in 2009 after taking a medicine for teething pain that contained diethylene glycol.
In India, 33 children died in 1998 after taking a contaminated cough expectorant. Eight children also died that year after taking paracetemol syrup. Both of those products contained diethylene glycol.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/heres-know-cou...28493.html
