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Chemical Leak In China Leaves One Dead, Hundreds Sick

by Ann Samuel on January 26, 2008 at 2:12 PM General Health News

At least one person died and hundreds fell ill in central China from drinking tap water tainted by a chemical leak, local hospitals said Thursday, amid reports over 1,000 people may have been poisoned.

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Government officials in the county of Chenxi in Hunan province have acknowledged the leak from a chemical factory, saying 26 people had been poisoned, the Beijing News reported.

But local hospital staff told AFP several dozen had been treated, while the newspaper quoted hospitals and local residents saying more than 1,000 had been poisoned.

"We have 70-80 patients at our hospital at the moment, but during the day, we get about 700 to 800 people a day arriving with the symptoms," a staffer at the Chenxi People's Hospital, who gave only his surname Zhang, told AFP by phone.

"This is due to sulfuric acid poisoning from the local factory."

The man added most sufferers had only light symptoms.

However, a doctor surnamed Li at the Chinese Medicine Hospital told AFP one person had died at that hospital, which now has about three dozen sufferers hospitalised.

The source of the chemical leak has been identified as the Xiaoping chemical plant in the town of Banqiao, it said.

The problem first came to light in early December, when a retired coal miner discovered that his tap water had turned yellow, the report said, quoting an unnamed victim of the poisoning.

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