{"id":67885,"date":"2024-11-23T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/how-can-i-tell-if-theres-methanol-in-my-drink"},"modified":"2024-11-23T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:00:21","slug":"how-can-i-tell-if-theres-methanol-in-my-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67885","title":{"rendered":"How can I tell if there\u2019s methanol in my drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks, smells and tastes like regular alcohol \u2013 so how can we protect ourselves after several people died after likely consuming methanol in Laos this week?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The risks of methanol poisoning are in sharp focus this week after the tragic deaths of several young people in Laos, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/22\/police-detain-owner-of-laos-hostel-after-tourists-became-ill-and-died-from-suspected-methanol-poisoning-ntwnfb\">Melbourne teens Holly Bowles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/nov\/21\/laos-methanol-poisoning-deaths-vang-vieng-holly-bowles-bianca-jones-hospitalisation-ntwnfb\">Bianca Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Doctors Without Borders, thousands of people <a href=\"https:\/\/methanolpoisoning.msf.org\/en\/\">are poisoned by methanol every year<\/a>, with outbreaks killing 20% to 40% of victims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/how-can-i-tell-if-theres-methanol-in-my-drink\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks, smells and tastes like regular alcohol \u2013 so how can we protect ourselves after several people died after likely consuming methanol in Laos this week?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe risks of methanol poisoning ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,727,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-laos","category-thailand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67885\/revisions\/67886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}