Fake diabetes drug hospitalizes 9 in NW China’s Xinjiang [[Xinjiang, China]]

URUMQI, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — Nine people were hospitalized after taking a
counterfeit diabetes drug in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
that last month caused the death of two others, said the local government
Tuesday.

Four of the nine people were being treated in Kashi People's Hospital and
are in stable condition. Five others had been released from hospital, said a
spokesman of the Kashi government.

3 February 2009