Lethal poison in homes

09 May 2016 - 09:05
By TANYA FARBER

Many South African babies are being poisoned as families try to deal with a plague of rats or to keep their toilets clean. A new study, based on calls from throughout the country to the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre in Cape Town, found that in a three-year period more than 1000 poisoning cases involved children under the age of one.

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