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One major aspirin manufacturer--Plough Inc., makers of...

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One major aspirin manufacturer--Plough Inc., makers of St. Joseph--said it would cooperate with a request by the government that aspirin bottles warn consumers of a possible link between the pain reliever and Reye’s Syndrome, the rare children’s disease. But the aspirin industry generally said it was waiting to review scientific studies. The federal Centers for Disease Control suggests that children who take aspirin for influenza or chicken pox may run a 25 times greater risk of getting Reye’s, which last year was fatal to one of every four children who contracted it.

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