The number of fatalities involved in the Polam Kopitiam food poisoning outbreak rose to four.
According to Focus Taiwan, the death of a 40-year-old woman on April 29 was the second such death in three days. Another person had died of multiple organ failure on April 27. Wang said the woman had been in the intensive care unit for more than a month as she faced organ failure and infections. She died of multiple organ failure at 3am on April 29.
Two of them — one still undergoing liver transplant surgery and another in the hospital — are in severe condition, Wang added.A lethal toxin suspected to be behind the fatal food poisoning outbreak was found in the stool of the restaurant's chef.
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