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So we maybe have yet another death? Who owns this resort? I don't have time to look into it.
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From link, thanks.
I suspect we are about to hear about a lot more illnesses/deaths that slipped under the radar. Now that its hitting the news, people will start coming forward.That's awful, IMO.
Wonder how many more incidents have happened and not been reported?
Could it be succinylcholine?
Pick Your Poison
I was wondering whether it would work via oral in ingestion.That's a good suggestion. Sux is fast-acting and often missed in tox reports, with cause of death appearing to be heart attack. However, it's an injectable drug with low bioavailability so pouring it into a drink would not have the same effects.
Don't be paranoid, just be careful. Hotels have nothing to gain by intentionally poisoning alcohol. First of all, we don't know if that was the source of the problem here at all. But assuming it was, sometimes very cheap booze is purchased in place of legit brands. This cheap alcohol can contain high levels of methanol due to poor quality control in manufacturing. This bad booze is slipped into the regular drinks. This typically doesn't happen in the U.S. because liquor production and distribution is controlled much more tightly. So a resort looking to maximize profits (or probably more likely a manager looking to pocket purchase budget money) may authorize less then legit liquor purchases. Usually nothing goes wrong, other than a few hangovers that may be worse than expected. But occasionally, the odds are going to catch up and a particularly bad batch shows up. Again, don't know this happened here. The fact that the one wife had one or two drinks and died sort of tells me that maybe something else is in play other than bad booze.So now to make me even more paranoid about traveling.... should we not drink alcohol from bars unless we purchase the bottle and inspect it ourselves? I have never been out of the country (and I know things like this happen IN our country too) but what does a hotel or someone have to gain from poisoning alcohol? Or could it be some sort of incident from drinking water... can you drink tap water in DR? Some type of parasite or bacteria people react to?
Wow, lots of changes in that resort's statement. Now the couple and the woman were staying at different hotels within the same resort, and the woman's cause of death is supposedly heart attack. That doesn't preclude the initial cause of death, pulmonary edema, as heart attack can bring on acute (cardiogenic) pulmonary edema. It just seems a bit odd that they didn't identify the underlying cause of death right away.
The worst part is that they did NOT run a toxicology report. Why not run one and rule out anything suspicious?
According to the resort, the couple's cause of death is now undetermined.
Wow, lots of changes in that resort's statement. Now the couple and the woman were staying at different hotels within the same resort, and the woman's cause of death is supposedly heart attack. That doesn't preclude the initial cause of death, pulmonary edema, as heart attack can bring on acute (cardiogenic) pulmonary edema. It just seems a bit odd that they didn't identify the underlying cause of death right away.
The worst part is that they did NOT run a toxicology report. Why not run one and rule out anything suspicious?
According to the resort, the couple's cause of death is now undetermined.
Sounds to me as if the alcohol had been tainted. This has happened recently at a five star resort in Mexico. And the fact another couple died around the same time, tells me there is a connection.
IMHO
Abbey Conner: Mexican resort served "poisonous" alcohol to woman who died, family says of January 2017 death - CBS News