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The Bakery That Tried to Kill Hong Kong - But Failed Spectacularly
The Bakery That Tried to Kill Hong Kong - But Failed Spectacularly
Violence and survival collided over breakfast: between 300 and 500 people in Hong Kong were violently poisoned on January 15, 1857 after eating bread from a single bakery, yet zero people died because the arsenic dose was so massive it forced vomiting and expulsion. Who put enough arsenic in those loaves to “kill half the European population” and why did the man who baked them leave the city before anyone could arrest him?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the forensic tests that identified arsenic trioxide…
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