Krebs Nicolas P, Czarnecki Lawrence
Acad Forensic Pathol. 2022 Sep;12(3):90-94. doi: 10.1177/19253621221108622. Epub 2022 Jul 11.
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.
甲醇毒性及其相关病理已得到广泛研究，然而，在新冠疫情初期，由于明显摄入受污染的洗手液，甲醇中毒事件有所增加。我们报告了一组病例，在慢性酒精中毒的情况下，因明显摄入受甲醇污染的洗手液导致五人死亡，一人疑似死亡。这些死亡事件发生在亚利桑那州科科尼诺县，历时四个半月（2020年6月至10月），正值美国食品药品监督管理局召回受污染洗手液之前及期间。在科科尼诺县，与甲醇相关的死亡相对罕见，在过去五年中仅发生过一例与甲醇相关的死亡（摄入来源不明）。
