Coronavirus: four dead, three blind after ingesting hand sanitiser in US

Four out of 15 adults admitted to hospital in the United States in recent months for ingesting an alcohol-based hand sanitiser died and three were left visually impaired, according to a new report from the nation’s health protection agency.The paper, published by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week, focused on cases of serious adverse health events or death “associated with swallowing alcohol-based hand sanitisers” containing methanol in two southwestern states…

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