Fake alcohol in Bangkok causes widespread methanol poisoning
Aug 25, 2024 — A cluster of severe methanol poisoning cases has emerged in Bangkok after 21 individuals fell ill after consuming counterfeit alcoholic beverages, leading to one death and several others in critical condition.
What is methanol poisoning and how can I protect myself?
Nov 19, 2024 — One Australian teenager has died and another is fighting for her life in a Thai hospital after they consumed drinks suspected to contain methanol in Laos. Here's how methanol poisoning occurs, and ...
Second Aussie teen dies from suspected methanol poisoning in Thailand …
Nov 22, 2024 — A second Australian teenager has tragically died just days after her friend after the pair consumed methanol-laced cocktails in Laos. Holly Bowles, 19, passed away in a Thailand hospital on Friday, according to her heartbroken parents.
Death toll reportedly rises in methanol drink poisoning tragedy
Nov 20, 2024 — Death toll reportedly rises in Laos methanol drink poisoning tragedy as Melbourne teens fight for their lives in Thai hospitals. A group of 14 people became seriously ill last week from drinking spirits believed to be spiked with methanol in …
Laos methanol poisonings: Australian teens among six tourists …
Nov 21, 2024 — An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences...
6 tourists died in Laos after apparently drinking methanol. What is …
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 causes of death have not been released. A New Zealander also has …
Families at bedsides of Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones in Thailand …
Nov 19, 2024 — In short: Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones both remain critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol while on a backpacking holiday in Laos. Both women's parents are at their bedsides in Thai ...
Methanol poisoning deaths highlight SE Asia's fake alcohol …
Nov 21, 2024 — Suspected methanol poisoning from tainted drinks has reportedly killed six tourists in a Laos holiday town in the past fortnight. A British woman, two Australian women, a US man and two Danish...
Scary detail as teens fight for life in Thailand after suspected ...
Nov 19, 2024 — Two Melbourne teenagers fighting for life in Thailand after drinking cocktails laced with methanol would have had no way of knowing their drinks had been poisoned, an expert says.
Laos alcohol poisoning: American and Australian tourists die, …
Nov 21, 2024 — Details on the alcohol poisoning began trickling out about a week after the two Australian women fell ill on Nov. 13 following a night out drinking with a group in the remote town. Thai authorities confirmed that Jones had died by “brain swelling due to high levels of methanol found in her system.”
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