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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last year, Bethany Clarke was chasing the trip of a lifetime through southeast Asia with her best friend. Today, saddled with grief, she’s left wondering how an evening out drinking could have ...