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Epidemic in Senegal on Sunday, 09 March, 2008 at 04:22 (04:22 AM) UTC.
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Health authorities in Senegal are looking into the unexplained deaths of about 20 small children in a poor suburb of Dakar, a regional medical chief said Friday [7 Mar 2008]. "Investigations have begun to find out how many (children) and what happened," said Khemes Ngom, confirming press reports that 18 to 20 children, aged 3 to 5, died in the fishing district of Thiaroye-sur-Mer. "People reported symptoms such as convulsions, vomiting and diarrhea," she said, "but after tests, pediatricians and doctors have ruled out diseases such as cerebral malaria, typhoid fever, meningitis and cholera." Ngom said that samples -- including ones from car batteries -- had been gathered in Thiaroye-sur-Mer to be sent to health ministry laboratories. The private weekly L'Observateur reported that the children might have been poisoned by lead from car batteries left on a public waste tip, because "people living in poverty fetch them to resell them."
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