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)

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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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