Communist China 'declines' to reveal number of sick and dead babies from milk scandal

No matter to Selig, Randy Levine, and the rest who can't wait to send our best baseball players over there.

• HOHHOT, China (AFP) — "China on Tuesday declined to release updated figures revealing just how many children have been affected by the tainted milk scandal, as it insisted it was working hard to boost confidence.

The health ministry said it had new statistics showing how many babies were believed to have been left ill by the crisis,

• but did not release the data and gave no indication of if or when it would made the latest information public.

"We've not released the latest number of cases because it is not an infectious disease, so it's not absolutely necessary for us to announce it to the public," a health ministry spokesman told AFP."...

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