A British backpacker and four other people have died in southeast Asia after reports of suspected methanol poisoning. Four people had already died following the poisonings - an Australian named ...

On Thursday (Nov 21), it was reported that a 28-year-old British woman died after consuming drinks laced with methanol, a toxic alcohol. Earlier in the week, media reports said two Danish women ...

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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 ...

Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos BANGKOK -- Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from ...

Methanol is a type of alcohol, like the familiar ethanol we consume in alcoholic beverages. Like ethanol, methanol is a colourless, flammable liquid. It has a smell similar to ethanol as well.

Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones has died and her friend Holly Bowles remains severely ill in hospital in Thailand, after experiencing suspected methanol poisoning while they were travelling in Laos.

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.

Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos BANGKOK -- Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from ...

Laos mourns methanol poisoning death of tourists 11/23/2024 November 23, 2024 Two Australians, two Danes, an American, and a Briton have died following a night out in tourist hot spot Vang Vieng.

If labels, smell or taste seem wrong then do not drink." Travellers are being warned of the dangers of methanol poisoning after six tourists to Laos have died. Methanol is an industrial chemical ...

Six tourists including a British lawyer have died in Laos after suspected methanol poisoning. Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was among a number of people taken to hospital following the ...