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Drink of death? Throat cancer linked to consumption of traditional brew

Men drink busaa brew at a Nairobi slum in an undated picture. [File, Standard]

Experts have intensified search for the cause of throat cancer in Western, which was identified as a top killer cancer in Kenya last month.

Initial indications, the experts said show consumption of alcohol especially busaa and chang’aa is to blame for nearly a half of the cases in the region.

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