The government must do more to heighten awareness of the risk of methanol poisoning while abroad: that is the message from family and friends of British victims who unwittingly consumed drinks ...

People at risk for methanol poisoning include toddlers and children, persons with alcohol use disorders who may use methanol as a substitute for ethanol, and individuals who attempted suicide. 4 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Six foreign tourists, including an unnamed U.S. man, have died of suspected methanol ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. An American man and two Danes also died, though their exact ...

Doctors have revealed a common treatment to slow the effects of methanol poisoning. It comes after six people died following a mass methanol poisoning in Laos, including Melbourne teenagers Bianca ...

Six tourists who were staying at a youth hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, died of methanol poisoning in November 2024. The methanol was believed to be in contaminated drinks. Methanol – a colourless, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Methanol was found in the blood of the 21 teenagers who died last month in a bar in South Africa's city of East London, according to a health official. Methanol — often called wood ...

Background: Mass poisonings with methanol are rare but occur regularly both in developed and in developing countries. Data from the poisoning episodes are often published, but follow-up-data is scarce ...

Concern in Louisville and in other nearby communities that border the Ohio River was raised this week after several barges got loose along the waterway — including one carrying 1,400 metric tons of ...