{"id":27652,"date":"2013-08-01T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=27652"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:32:40","slug":"cuba-7-dead-after-drinking-illicit-methyl-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=27652","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: 7 Dead After Drinking Illicit Methyl Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alcohol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27647\" alt=\"Alcohol\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alcohol.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Cuban state television says at least seven people have died of poisoning after consuming methyl alcohol and 41 others remain hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>A Health Ministry report read out on the afternoon news says numerous people began showing up at Havana emergency rooms Monday exhibiting symptoms of &#8220;serious poisoning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was determined that they had consumed illegal methyl alcohol, also called methanol or &#8220;wood alcohol,&#8221; which is used in labs and research centers. Methanol is highly toxic for humans and can result in death or permanent health problems, including blindness.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry said Wednesday that the victims bought the deadly booze from a black-market merchant who procured it from two pharmaceutical employees.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the 41 people hospitalized are in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban state television says at least seven people have died of poisoning after consuming methyl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1977],"class_list":["post-27652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-cuba","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}