It’s just after 9pm on a dusty street in Vang Vieng, and it’s noticeably quiet.

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, ...

Kirsty McKie died in July 2022 from the complications of methanol poisoning after unknowingly consuming contaminated alcohol ...

Six tourists who were staying at a youth hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, died of methanol poisoning in November 2024. The methanol was believed to be in contaminated drinks. Methanol – a colourless, ...

Travelers, beware. What starts off as just another night out with friends can end in disaster if you aren't careful. Canadian-born Ashley King recently took to social media to share her story of a ...

Three people have died and more than 200 others have fallen ill in a wave of methanol poisoning cases stemming from suspected tainted alcohol spreading through Brazil. Bruna Araújo de Souza, 30; ...

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 ...

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 ...