Police investigating if Wimbledon player was poisoned

Thursday, August 11, 2016
LONDON (WLS) -- Detectives in London are trying to determine if a British tennis player was poisoned at Wimbledon.

Gabriella Taylor, 18, had to drop out of the junior tournament when she became sick on July 6, said detectives.
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According to investigators, she was hospitalized and diagnosed with a bacterial infection spread by animals.

The bacteria is so rare that her family felt it could not have been an accident.
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