Costa Rica's Health Ministry has updated the death toll of people poisoned by tainted alcohol in the central American country, which is popular with American tourists.. The agency said in a press ...

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A string of deaths linked to tainted alcohol has sparked concern among health officials across the world. On Jan. 25, police confirmed that a couple staying at a villa in Vietnam were killed last ...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll in the mass poisoning ...

Employees of a Laotian hostel were detained after an American tourist and five others died from suspected methanol poisoning following a night of drinking tainted booze.. The owner and manager of ...

Twenty-three people in Istanbul have died in 48 hours after drinking tainted alcohol, authorities said Wednesday. At least 43 others were hospitalized — 32 of them in intensive care — Turkish ...

Excessive alcohol deaths climbing among women, CDC finds 03:55. New Delhi — At least 34 people have died in India after consuming illegally brewed liquor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu ...

Methanol-tainted alcohol poisonings have occurred in Russia, South Africa and Peru over the years. In June, at least 56 people in southern India died after consuming methanol-laced liquor.

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — An Australian teenager and a British woman have died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia's prime minister on Thursday said was every parent's nightmare.