An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called every parent’s nightmare. An American and two Danish tourists also died, officials said, following reports that several people had been sickened in a Laotian town popular with backpackers.

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    15 hours ago

    Methanol poisoning happened where I live too some time back. That turned out to be that someone was intentionaly mixing methanol with the alcohol to increase yield. And then someone else mixed more methanol withot knowing there was already some. Increasing methanol to ethanol ratio to poisonous levels.

    Ethanol act as inhibitor to methanol poisoning…