The woman who baked the cake, along with a 10-year-old child who also ate the cake, remain in the hospital and are receiving treatment for poisoning.

Arsenic has been found in the blood of one of three women who died after eating a Christmas cake in a suspected poisoning in Brazil, a police chief has told local media. The highly toxic substance was also identified in the blood test results of a 10-year-old boy and the woman who made the cake - both of whom are still in hospital.

At least three members of a family have died, and three others have been hospitalized, after eating a traditional Christmas cake — months after the baker's husband died from food poisoning. Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos,

Three family members are dead and three hospitalized after eating a homemade Bolo de Natal Christmas cake found to be laced with arsenic. Latin Times Tragedy struck a Brazilian family after they shared a traditional Christmas cake found to be laced with arsenic,

Bacteria-ridden currants and other spoiled foods used as a cake topping could be linked to the fatal poisonings.