Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff members of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of ...

James Louis Hutson, 57, of the US, and Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20 and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, both Danish, were ...

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

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

An American citizen has died at a popular adventure spot in Laos where alcohol tainted with methanol has been blamed for a ...

Two 19-year-old Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently ...

Alcohol poisoning is a life-threatening condition that happens when toxic levels of alcohol cause areas of the brain that control essential functions to shut down. This condition occurs when you ...

An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in ...

Methanol poisoning is very similar to the effects of ethanol (alcohol) poisoning, which can lead to delays in getting the right treatment. It is usually only when doctors notice that the patient ...

and an American have died in what is believed to be a case of mass poisoning from methanol, an industrial chemical often used in bootleg alcohol. News reports say the victims visited nearby Jaidee ...