Laos is really working to get more tourists: Five dead and more seriously ill after drinks tainted with methanol
For those unaware, methanol is a type of alcohol not meant for human consumption. Mainly because it is highly poisonous.
A night of downing cocktails at a Laotian hostel has left an American tourist and four others dead from what authorities said was methanol-tainted booze.
Victims include two Danish women in their twenties, 28-year-old British lawyer Simone White, and 19-year-old Australian student Bianca Jones, according to the Times.
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Another Australian woman — 19-year-old Holly Bowles, a classmate of Jones' — remains on life support, while at least six more are also in the hospital.
Most of the victims were staying at the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vien, where they are known to have downed shots before hitting the town on the night of November 12.
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Methanol poisonings have been known to kill dozens of people at at time.
In 2020, 44 people died in Iran after they reportedly thought guzzling the phony booze would keep them safe from Covid-19.
And in a 2019 Costa Rica incident, at least 25 died after drinking across 10 different establishments.
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Only reason someone would go to Laos would be to visit the North Korean restaurants or the multiple underground casinos that exist in the territory
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/11/few-customers-but-plenty-of-cash-n-korean-restaurants-remain-open-in-laos
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They also apparently had opium dens there, as recently as the late 90s.
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Foids go backpacking in weird places so they have something- anything- to talk about. Travel substituting for personality.
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