Today’s Cancerous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In the spring of 1978 a German laboratory technician was convicted of attempting to murder his wife by administering cancer cells to her. He had smuggled a cancer culture from the research laboratory in which he worked and mixed it into her food. Although she became ill, she did not die for the culture was not in itself dangerous in that form.
Culled from: Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedi, Volume 3
Talk about a guy not understanding biology!
So that makes me wonder, what was it that caused her to become ill? The growth medium the cancer cells were in?