date:Aug 07, 2012
The report, published in the August 2012 issue of Emergency Medicine Australia, describes a young American tourist who developed sudden visual failure and rapid breathing twodays after drinking a local cocktail called Arrack, when travelling in Indonesia.
The cocktail was consumed at a tourist bar but is likely to have been mixed from home-brewed or moonshine alcohol tainted with methanol.
Authors of the report, emergency physicians Dr Paul Gee and Dr Elizabeth Martin from Christchurch Hospital,