Medicine killed 84 children in Nigeria

When 84 babies mysteriously died, many people questioned: how? The Nigerian Health Office came up with the answer: a medicine for children with teething pain called "My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture" contained a toxic chemical called DAKAR.
The New York Times said following at their web page: www.nytimes.com:

“The poison has caused many deaths in children between the ages of 2 months and 7 years old in Nigeria,” Babatunde Osotimehin, Nigeria’s minister of health, said in a statement. “The death of any Nigerian child is a great loss to the nation.”

The medicine goes in the kidney and liver and causes serious damage, attacking the central nervous system, and hampers the breathing because of paralysis. Many of the children stopped urinating and some other had diarrhea. They also suffered under pyrexia and vomiting. Many of the children got sick last November, and were brought to lousy hospitals. Then, because of all the similarities the children suffered under, the hospitals started wondering.

Investigators from Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration have traced the medicine down to an unlicensed chemical dealer in Lagos. The company has been shut down, and the medicine have been removed from the pharmacies.

This is not the first time a medicine has caused mass poisoning cases in this world. In Panama, 365 people were killed after taking medicine filled with chemicals in 2006. So next time you take your medicine, you might want to check what it contains...