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US jury orders Monsanto to pay $290m to cancer patient over weed killer

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson reacts after hearing the verdict to his case against Monsanto in San Francisco. [AFP]

A California jury ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay nearly $290 million Friday for failing to warn a dying groundskeeper that its weed killer Roundup might cause cancer.

Jurors unanimously found that Monsanto -- which vowed to appeal -- acted with "malice" and that its weed killers Roundup and the professional grade version RangerPro contributed "substantially" to Dewayne Johnson's terminal illness.

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