SINGAPORE - Innocuous-looking tiny magnetic balls, a toy that is increasingly popular among children in Singapore, constricted and punctured the intestine of a nine-year-old girl after she swallowed them.
The damage caused her to repeatedly throw up green vomit over the course of two weeks, perplexing doctors, as no one knew she had swallowed the balls.
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