Mozambique funeral beer poisoning
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mozambique-funeral-beer-poisoning-232-5733107
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Mozambique funeral beer poisoning
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On 9 January 2015, 75 people died and 230 were made ill after drinking contaminated beer at a funeral in Mozambique. All of the people affected had consumed the local beer, pombe, on 9 January, which had been inadvertently contaminated by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli which produced the toxic compound bongkrekic acid. Early speculation on the source of the illness by Mozambique officials blamed crocodile bile. A Forbes article opposed this hypothesis and instead pointed to the toxic flower
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2015 mass poisoning due to contaminated beer in Chitima, Mozambique
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_funeral_beer_poisoning
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2023-05-31T12:10:29Z
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