Here is an explainer for methanol and what it does to the body, following an update in the case of six backpackers who died in Laos after drinking shots.

The brother of a British tourist who died in a mass methanol poisoning says the punishments issued to 10 people linked to the ...

While backpacking in Bali during a gap year after high school, Ashley King, then 18, went to an “upscale nightclub” with friends and had some cocktails Two days later, Ashley, who hails from Calgary, ...

Parents of Melbourne teens accuse Australian government of lack of communication which ‘made an unbearable grief even worse’ ...

A 30-year-old woman has become the third person to die from methanol poisoning in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, as the authorities investigate the source of the tainted drinks thought to be making ...

SAO PAULO — 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, wine or ...

The families of Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles say they have been left in the dark following the 2024 poisoning deaths ...

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 ...

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 ...