Oh, well that is unfortunate. She was quite a character in that film. Though the probabilty of having a weakness to di-hydrogen mono-oxyide, yet having no exposure to it previously, is a dubious postulation at best.
Though it does make for an interesting theatrical experience.
I once knew a geneticist in grad-school who toyed with the notion of inter-mixing species at a cellular level. I wonder if he knows much about flying monkeys?