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Western Kenya drink hottest tea in the world — Study

Kenyans drink the hottest tea ever recorded anywhere else and risking throat cancer, warns a study at Tenwek Hospital in Bomet County.

The study shows people in Western Kenya, a region with high rates of throat or food pipe cancer, prefer their tea at temperatures exceeding 72°C, the highest recorded so far.

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