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GENEVA (AP) - Nearly 400 people — mostly children — have fallen ill in Angola in what medical investigators suspect is an outbreak of bromide poisoning, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
The first cases were identified in October, the agency said. The patients, more than half of them children under age 15, are being treated at a hospital in Cacuaco, in Angola's north, it said.
WHO said it found "extremely high levels of bromide" among the patients. The chemical is commonly used in Angola's oil industry, but WHO officials said they were not sure how the patients were exposed.
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