On 2015, authorities in
Mozambique reported that 69 people had died and nearly 200 were hospitalized after drinking contaminated beer at a funeral on . According to local officials, all of the people affected had consumed the local beer,
pombe, which they said was likely poisoned with crocodile
bile. However, a
Forbes article opposed this hypothesis and instead pointed to the toxic flowering plant
foxglove as the likely source of the poison. Local officials said that people who had consumed the beer complained about muscle pains and diarrhea. Samples of beer and blood were sent to the capital city of
Maputo for laboratory testing.