Maputo — The mass poisoning of people who drank a traditional alcoholic brew on 9 January in the town of Chitima, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, was caused by bacterial contamination, according to a report from the multi-disciplinary team that investigated the case.
The director of the National Health Institute (INS), Ilesh Janu, presented the main findings of the report at a Maputo press conference on Wednesday, ruling out the hypothesis that the poisoning had been a deliberate crime, and pinning the blame on a bacterium, Burkholderia Gladioli.
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