Cuban death toll from methanol sold as rum climbs to 11

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Cuban death toll from methanol sold as rum climbs to 11

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cuban-death-toll-methanol-sold-rum-climbs-11-212002750.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/r3ibKXS57ABKhSOKSjVNTg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-08-02T212002Z_1_CBRE9711N9V00_RTROPTP_2_CUBA-INTOXICATION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Nurse walks outside Cristobal Labra health clinic, where according to local media, victims of an alcohol poisoning incident were first treated in Havana" align="left" title="Nurse walks outside Cristobal Labra health clinic, where according to local media, victims of an alcohol poisoning incident were first treated in Havana" border="0" /></a>HAVANA (Reuters) - Eleven Cubans have died this week and more than 60 are in hospital after consuming toxic industrial methanol sold as rum, state media reported on Friday. The toll was up from seven dead and more than 40 hospitalized, as first reported by the Public Health Ministry on Wednesday in Cuba's worst mass poisoning incident in at least a decade. The poisoning cases emerged starting on Monday in the La Lisa municipality of Havana after poisonous wood alcohol was stolen from a warehouse and then passed off as rum, according to authorities. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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