On this day - 9 January

On January 9th 2015 75 died and more than 230 people became ill as a result of drinking contaminated beer at a funeral in Mozambique. Everyone that was affected had consumed the local traditional beer pompe. It was found that the beer had been contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli, a bacteria likely to have originated in the flood damaged corn flour used to brew the drink.

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