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Drum-Maker Dies Of Anthrax In UK
Fernando Gomez, a folk musician of Hackney, East London, used animal skins - particularly those imported from Africa - to make bongos. He had been living in the UK for around seven years after moving from Madrid, Spain.
The inquest heard two animal skins found at his studio flat were contaminated with very similar anthrax spores as those found in his blood. But health chiefs had been unable to establish where the skins had come from.
Mr Gomez, only 34, died in November 10 days after checking into Homerton Hospital with breathing difficulties, a loss of appetite and night sweats.
He died when toxins released by the Anthrax bacteria caused multiple organ failure.
Special medicines had been flown in from America because the disease was so rare and he was put on the same course of antibiotics as ''those exposed to Anthrax in the US terror attack in 2001.''
Coroner Dr Andrew Reid recorded a verdict that he had died of natural causes with the cause of death being ''sepsis and toxemia due to inhalation anthrax'', adding: ''It is not for me to determine any issue of criminal or civil liability.''
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