A string of deaths across the world have been linked to alcohol tainted with methanol, raising alarm among health officials. Here’s how to stay safe while traveling.

Laos methanol poisonings latest: Parents of killed British tourist pay tribute to ‘beautiful daughter’ - Holly Bowles was taken to a Thai hospital after consuming ‘tainted’ alcohol shots ...

Methanol, the chemical at the heart of the Czech liquor's menace, is a commonly synthesized alcohol found in antifreeze and windshield wiper fluid. Like ethanol, the type of alcohol that is ...

Methanol exposure, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, can lead to nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous ...

Other sanitizers containing methanol The FDA is advising consumers not to use the following hand sanitizers because tests found them to contain methanol or that they were "purportedly made at the ...

The researchers then investigated the efficacy of the device for differentiating between un-tainted liquor from contaminated beverages. They laced Arrack (a Southeast Asian liquor) with varying ...