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Speaker 1: Jones and Amanda Gama.

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Speaker 2: The methanol poisoning story of the two friends in Vietnam

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Speaker 2: is scary as and it's tragic because young Bianca Jones

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Speaker 2: has passed away, her friend Holly is still fighting for

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Speaker 2: life in hospital.

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Speaker 1: Five people have now died as a result of this

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Speaker 1: louse poisoning. Mon who's one of our producers here this morning,

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Speaker 1: said that when you're in Vietnam, yeah, in Thailand, Thailand,

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Speaker 1: you had a similar experience.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, back in twenty eighteen, I went over with my

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Speaker 3: boyfriend at the time and you know, out at a bar,

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Speaker 3: you know, normal functioning bar night out, had a couple

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Speaker 3: of cocktails, ended up really really unwell and throwing up,

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Speaker 3: you know, in the bathroom, laying in the shower. It

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Speaker 3: was really really awful.

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Speaker 2: And that was two drinks, right, And did you suspect

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Speaker 2: it was methanol poisoning?

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Speaker 3: At the time, I was like, oh, gosh, maybe I

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Speaker 3: didn't eat enough or something like that. Maybe I know,

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Speaker 3: went too hard on the alcohol or whatever. And I

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Speaker 3: was like, it was two drinks, so it doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 3: And thinking back to my symptoms at the time, I

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Speaker 3: was dizzy. I couldn't see it wasn't normal like for

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Speaker 3: two drinks at the time, and you know had been

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Speaker 3: drinking pretty heavily on the holiday. You know, I'm on holiday,

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Speaker 3: so it didn't make sense that it was just alcohol.

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Speaker 1: It's funny that we talk about it as methanol poisoning

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Speaker 1: because I've been watching the stories and I've been wondering

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Speaker 1: why would they do that? And you were saying to

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Speaker 1: meet Brennan this morning that this tell me what you're

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Speaker 1: saying about. This is how they avoid well they have.

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Speaker 2: Ethanol is taxed differently to methanol. Methanol is what we

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Speaker 2: use you know, for fuel, car feel and things like that.

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Speaker 2: Ethanol is which goes to alcohol whole, but you can

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Speaker 2: easily the chemistry. Then this is what they worry about

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Speaker 2: with those home brewers, that how ethanol can turn to

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Speaker 2: methanol like that. So if someone doesn't know what they're

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Speaker 2: doing when they're making arak and all those sort of things,

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Speaker 2: it can easily and that's what leads to blindness.

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Speaker 1: So what they're doing, though, is they are trying to

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Speaker 1: make a cheap form of alcohol. They're not setting out

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Speaker 1: to poison you. No, that's right. They're making these drinks

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Speaker 1: and you can't tell when you're drinking it, but that's in.

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Speaker 3: It exactly the same. It tasted exactly like your average vodka,

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Speaker 3: soda or cocktail.

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Speaker 1: That's what is so alarming. So I know that Penny

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Speaker 1: Wong this morning has made, you know, has said, hey,

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Speaker 1: people need to be aware and be careful. But you

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Speaker 1: but short of drinking at the most expensive hotel in

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Speaker 1: the city, how do you know?

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Speaker 3: You just can't, I guess, drink out of a bottle.

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Speaker 3: But I mean it's that is why girls.

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Speaker 1: I mean, girls are going to drink cocktails. Guys drink beer,

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Speaker 1: maybe out of a bottle, but girls are going to

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Speaker 1: drink mixed drinks.

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Speaker 2: But those symptoms as well that you talk. So you're

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Speaker 2: in the shower and and were thinking I've got to

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Speaker 2: go to a hospital or something.

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Speaker 3: At the time, I was still like, oh, maybe I

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Speaker 3: just drank too much, and I think I had to drinks. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think there was a lot of blame for myself

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Speaker 3: in that in that moment, thinking oh, I've just gone

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Speaker 3: too hard and how silly of me, how embarrassing, But

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Speaker 3: it wasn't really you know, embarrassing thinking back to it,

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Speaker 3: I was like, I've been poisoned.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what did you do for the rest of

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Speaker 2: your holiday? So at what stage was this in the whole?

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Speaker 3: Pretty early on? I think we were in Pouquette at

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Speaker 3: the time, and I felt really sick for the next

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Speaker 3: two days and I didn't drink at all going forward.

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Speaker 1: That's a terrifying thank you. And how do you protect

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Speaker 1: yourself short of don't drink when you're on the holiday

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Speaker 1: because they're not deliberately poisoning you. They're making cheap alcohol.

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Speaker 1: You don't know, because it tastes exactly and smells exactly

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Speaker 1: the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you're in a third wore country and

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Speaker 2: you've just got to remember that you're not back at

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Speaker 2: home when you're overseas.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, man, fine, thank you