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    added on 27 Oct 2009

    In August, six Harvard Medical School scientists were sickened after drinking coffee from a communal coffee machine: Turns out it was laced with a chemical called sodium azide. The poisoning was revealed last week in an internal memo to faculty at Harvard. In this ABC News story, one of the sicke...

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    posted to Booster Shots on 27 Oct 2009

    In August, six Harvard Medical School scientists were sickened after drinking coffee from a communal coffee machine: Turns out it was laced with a chemical called sodium azide. The poisoning was revealed last week in an internal memo to faculty at Harvard. In this ABC News story, one of the sicke...

  • The Great Beyond Harvard medical researchers were poisoned

    posted to The Great Beyond on 27 Oct 2009

    The possibility that six Harvard researchers were poisoned deliberately has been raised by one of those who fell ill after drinking coffee laced with sodium azide. Matteo Iannacone, a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, said he doesn’t believe the coffee could have been spiked accidentally or as ...