Ondo alcohol poisoning: 48 dead, 182 affected as panel confirms methanol in ‘monkey tail’

The NMA-NAFDAC Liaison Committee has confirmed that precocious attraction of methanol successful a section concoction known arsenic ‘monkey tail’ is liable for the caller wide deaths successful Ondo State.

Chairman of the committee, Dr Azim Adekunle Ashimi, disclosed this successful an update on Tuesday, citing laboratory findings by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.

According to the committee, samples collected from Odigbo, Irele and surrounding LGAs contained precocious concentrations of methanol and cannabis indica.

It said retired of 182 affected, 48 persons person died, 5 rendered permanently unsighted and 2 others suffered partial ocular loss.

Ashimi explained that methanol is an concern solvent not intended for quality consumption, adding that erstwhile ingested, the liver metabolises it into formic acerb which attacks the optic nervus and retinal cells.

He said this leads to irreversible blindness, terrible metabolic acidosis, multi-organ nonaccomplishment and death.

The committee said victims presented with terrible headache, abdominal pain, generalised weakness, altered consciousness, breathing trouble and blurred oregon “snowfield” imaginativeness aft taking the drink.

He advis...