Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal

November 15, 2008 By CHARLES HUTZLER , Associated Press Writer Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal (AP)

Li Xiaoyan sits on the lap of her mother Li Aiqing at their home in Liti village, near Runan, in China's Henan province, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Li Xiaoyan's nine-month-old twin sister, Li Xiaokai who had been drinking a brand of milk formula linked to the melamine scandal died from kidney failure. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

(AP) -- Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.

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