On 17 September 2008, Health Minister Chen Zhu stated that tainted milk formula has sickened more than 6,200 children, and that more than 1,300 others, mostly newborns, remain hospitalised with 158 suffering from acute kidney failure".[13] By 23 September 2008 about 54,000 children were reported to be sick.[14] Nearly 13,000 Chinese infants had been admitted to hospital, 104 of them in a serious and painful condition.[15] An additional 10,000 cases were reported from the provinces by 26 September.[16] A World Health Organisation regional official said 82 percent of the children made sick by the formula were 2 years old or younger.[17]
A lion cub and two baby orangutans which had been fed Sanlu milk powder at Hangzhou Zoo, were diagnosed with kidney stones.[18]