Food poisoning linked to 14 deaths in two regions

Aflatoxins are toxic, carcinogenic by-products of fungi that colonise maize and groundnuts, among other crops.

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The United States-based Centre for Disease Control (CDC), which carried out tests on 19 urine and blood samples, has also isolated the most poisonous and cancer-causing substance known as Aflatoxin B1.