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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight countries have been added to a UK Foreign Office list warning of the risks of methanol poisoning from counterfeit or tainted alcoholic drinks. Ecuador, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Friday night was anything but typical at a bar near Paulista Avenue, one of Sao Paulo’s busiest areas and a popular destination for tourists. Nearly every table was ordering beer, ...

Travelers from the United States, Britain, Australia and Denmark have died in the Southeast Asian nation in recent days. Officials warned of poisoning caused by alcoholic drinks containing methanol.

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 ...

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 ...

An American is among at least five tourists who have died in recent days after visiting a town in Laos where tainted alcohol is suspected to be the cause behind a series of methanol poisoning cases.

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 UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has significantly expanded its methanol poisoning warning, adding 11 more countries to its advisory following what it calls “a global ...