Coffee City
Melissa Allison tracks Seattle's — and the world's — caffeine addiction.
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Harvard researchers poisoned by coffee, turn to Starbucks
Posted by Melissa Allison
The Boston Herald has closely followed a case of poisoned coffee at a Harvard University laboratory, where workers were sickened in August by a lab chemical that at least one of them believes was intentionally added to the espresso machine they used.
"It took a while to connect the dots," one lab worker told the Herald. All the victims had a drop in blood pressure and at least one passed out and stayed in the hospital overnight, he told the paper.
The communal espresso machine has been removed, and an investigation continues.
"We are now going to the Starbucks downstairs," the researcher told ABC.
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