ArticleJournal of environmental and public health2020
Fatal Methanol Poisoning Caused by Drinking Adulterated Locally Distilled Alcohol: Wakiso District, Uganda, June 2017.
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- Postmortem Methanol and Formic Acid Levels and Their Pathological Correlates: Diagnostic Implications from an Autopsy Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Adverse commercial determinants of health in low- and middle-income countries: a public health challenge.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Outcome assessment of acute methanol poisoning: A risk-prediction nomogram approach for in-hospital mortality.Toxicology reports · 2024Article
- Methanol intoxication in the central region of Saudi Arabia: Five case studies.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2024Article
- Sociodemographic distribution and correlates of nonfatal unintentional non-traffic-related injuries in Kenya: Results from the 2014 demographic and health survey.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Fatal Methanol Poisoning Caused by Drinking Industrial Alcohol: Silesia Region, Poland, April-June 2022.Toxics · 2022Article
- Improving the effectiveness of Field Epidemiology Training Programs: characteristics that facilitated effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Methanol-induced optic neuropathy: a still-present problem.Archives of toxicology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Background: Methanol, an industrial solvent, can cause illness and death if ingested. In June 2017, the Uganda Ministry of Health was notified of a cluster of deaths which occurred after drinking alcohol. We investigated to determine the cause of outbreak, identify risk factors, and recommend evidence-based control measures. Methods: We defined a probable case as acute loss of eyesight and ≥1 of the following symptoms: profuse sweating, vomiting, dizziness, or loss of consciousness in a resident of either Nabweru or Nangabo Subcounty from 1 to 30 June 2017. In a case-control study, we compared exposures of case-patients and controls selected among asymptomatic neighbors who drank alcohol and matched by age and sex. We collected alcohol samples from implicated bars and wholesaler Results: We identified 15 cases; 12 (80%) died. Among case-patients, 12 (80%) were men; the median age was 43 (range: 23-66) years. Thirteen (87%) of 15 case-patients and 15 (25%) of 60 controls last drank a locally distilled alcohol at one of the three bars supplied by wholesaler Conclusion: This outbreak was caused by drinking a locally distilled alcohol adulterated with methanol from wholesaler
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