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The serum vial in the fridge poisoned eighteen children
A refrigerated serum vial in Dr. Thomson’s Bundaberg fridge caused mass poisoning-how did a clear bottle expose eighteen children?
The serum vial in the fridge poisoned eighteen children
In this episode we lay out the morning of January 27, 1928 in Bundaberg, when twenty-one children were inoculated and eighteen fell critically ill within hours. We follow the local immunization program, the refrigerated vial used by Dr. Ewing Thomson, and the early medical and investigative questions that drove a five-month inquiry into how a protective medicine became lethal.
Date: January 27, 1928
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