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Indian baby dies after consuming mother's 'snake bite' breast milk

India accounts for 46,000 of the 100,000 snakebite deaths around the world each year

An Indian woman who was bitten by a snake in her sleep and unknowingly breastfed poisoned milk to her daughter has died along with the child, police said Friday.

The 35-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh state did not realise she had been bitten when she woke and breastfed her daughter.

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