TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - A cluster of five deaths due to methanol toxicity after apparent hand sanitizer ingestion in the setting of chronic alcoholism
JO  - Academic forensic pathology
A1  - Krebs, Nicolas P.
A1  - Czarnecki, Lawrence
SP  - 90
EP  - 94
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
N2  - Methanol toxicity and its associated pathologies have been widely studied, however, at  the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increase in methanol toxicity due to  apparent consumption of contaminated hand sanitizer. We report a cluster of five deaths  and one presumed death due to the apparent consumption of hand sanitizer, contaminated  with methanol, in the setting of chronic alcoholism. The deaths occurred in Coconino  County, Arizona, over a four-and-a-half-month period (June-October 2020), before and  during a Food and Drug Administration recall of contaminated hand sanitizer.   Methanol-related deaths are relatively uncommon in Coconino County, with only one methanol  associated death (source of ingestion unknown) occurring over the previous five years.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1925-3621
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19253621221108622
ID  - ref1
ER  -