Mozambique Funeral Beer Poisoning

Date: January 9, 2015 • Location: Tete, Mozambique

Contaminated beer served at a funeral in Tete Province, Mozambique, killed 75 people and made at least 230 others ill.

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.