{"id":57958,"date":"2024-04-15T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=57958"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:37:45","slug":"at-least-four-african-nations-withdraw-child-cough-syrup-over-toxicity-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/15\/at-least-four-african-nations-withdraw-child-cough-syrup-over-toxicity-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"At least four African nations withdraw child cough syrup over toxicity fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37404\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cough-syrup-1-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cough-syrup-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cough-syrup-1-770x664.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cough-syrup-1-360x310.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cough-syrup-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A<\/span>t least four African countries have now withdrawn a batch of the well-known Benylin children\u2019s cough syrup, after a medicines watchdog found high levels of a toxic solvent linked to scores of poisoning deaths.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/at-least-four-african-nations-withdraw-child-cough-syrup-over-toxicity-fears\/ar-BB1lEDgh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=f3dacaeec935412f821dec65065ced19&amp;ei=53\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>At least four African countries have now withdrawn a batch of the well-known Benylin children\u2019s cough syrup, after a medicines watchdog found&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cough-syrup.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57959,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958\/revisions\/57959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}