Pork cutlets may have killed Mozart

Forget rheumatic fever, kidney stones, heart disease, pneumonia and even poisoning - what may have really killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were pork cutlets.

Forget rheumatic fever, kidney stones, heart disease, pneumonia and even poisoning - what may have really killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were pork cutlets.

The latest theory about the 35-year-old composer’s untimely death on December 5, 1791, in Vienna suggests the culprit was probably trichinosis.

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