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Six people, including a British backpacker, have died allegedly after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. Two Danes, two Australians and an American have also died after being taken to the hospital with ...

A string of deaths linked to tainted alcohol has sparked concern among health officials across the world. On Jan. 25, police confirmed that a couple staying at a villa in Vietnam were killed last ...

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has expanded its methanol poisoning warning to cover eight additional countries where incidents have been recorded among British travellers.

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 ...

A string of deaths in Laos tied to tainted alcohol has raised alarm around the world and renewed concerns about methanol in alcoholic drinks. Last week, six tourists died in Laos from a suspected ...

A new catalyst built from isolated indium atoms allows scientists to convert CO2 into methanol more efficiently while revealing the hidden chemistry that drives the reaction.

It was supposed to be a night out with friends, but it left one Canadian high school grad poisoned — and permanently blind — after drinking cocktails tainted with methanol. Ashley King, then 18, was ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has engineered a microbial strain capable of rapidly growing in high concentrations of ...

Ashley King, now 33, is sharing the story of how she was poisoned by a fruity cocktail, which caused her to go blind Courtesy Ashley King While backpacking in Bali during a gap year after high school, ...