Two Danes, two Australians, a Briton and an American have died after visiting Vang Vieng, an idyllic town that is popular with foreign backpackers, and drinking contaminated alcohol ...

Two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos messaged a friend to say they had been vomiting blood for hours ...

Six tourists, including Australians and a British woman, died in Laos, likely from methanol poisoning. The U.S. State ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected ...

Unlike ethanol, the type of alcohol found in beverages, methanol is highly poisonous even in small quantities. Its ingestion ...

The deaths of five tourists after apparently drinking tainted drinks highlight the wider issue of bootleg alcohol.

A hostel owner and manager have been arrested by police, and six tourists have now died in a tainted alcohol tragedy in Laos.

An American tourists, an Australian teen, a British woman, and two Danish tourists have died after they consumed methanol, ...

The U.S. State Department issued a warning to travelers to be "alert to the potential risk of methanol poisoning." But what is methanol, and how do you avoid it?

The U.S. State Department issued a warning to travelers to be “alert to the potential risk of methanol poisoning.” ...