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From: (Grant Menzies)
Subject: Re: Bizarre Deaths
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 19:55:20 GMT
References: <20021102143007.11284.00002830@mb-fi.aol.com>


(DavidBotts) wrote:

>Hi all:
>
>FYR, every once in a while I run into a new cause of death I've yet to have
>seen among the hundreds of thousands of folks I've checked into. Here's a new
>one:
>
>Alexander I 'of the Hellenes' - died from complications of a monkey bite.

He actually was walking his dog in the garden, the monkey fought with
the dog, and in trying to separate them Alexander received a bite from
the monkey on his ankle which then became infected. There is evidence
that insufficient medical attention is more to blame for the king's
death than the monkey.

Grant
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