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A Michigan hyperbaric oxygen therapy center comes under investigation after a 5-year-old boy is incinerated during a routine treatment.

Prelude: A Florida hyperbaric oxygen therapy center comes under investigation after a 4-year-old child and his grandmother are incinerated during a routine treatment.

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