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69 Dead from Crocodile Poison in Beer

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scottalanmiller
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This is horrible.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/contaminated-beer-at-funeral-kills-56-in-mozambique
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Joy
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Horrible news
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MattSpeller
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Terrible news. Further reading about the specific mechanism (or lack there of) for the curious.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2015/01/12/what-is-crocodile-bile-and-is-it-really-poisonous/
TL;DR - it wasn't the bile that killed them.
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It was bile put into the beer. Crocodiles are poisonous, not venomous.
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