**Vitamin A panic in India **
**Unrelated deaths fuel hysteria – campaign for kids halted :eek: **
Celia W. Dugger, New York Times
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Dhupaguri Pather, India – Panicky rumors that dozens of children have died from doses of vitamin A have halted a public health drive that international experts say is essential to save tens of thousands of children from dying of diarrhea, measles and other common ailments.
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