{"id":81051,"date":"2025-08-18T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/i-saw-a-kaleidoscopic-light-before-going-blind-says-laos-methanol-poisoning-survivor-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:43:37","slug":"i-saw-a-kaleidoscopic-light-before-going-blind-says-laos-methanol-poisoning-survivor-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/i-saw-a-kaleidoscopic-light-before-going-blind-says-laos-methanol-poisoning-survivor-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I saw a kaleidoscopic light before going blind\u2019, says Laos methanol poisoning survivor | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of bereaved family and friends in the UK are calling for more awareness about the dangers of methanol <!--more--> poisoning abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Methanol can be found in spirits in tourist hotspots like Thailand, Indonesia or Laos.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s not always easy to tell whether the alcohol is bootleg, and the effects of these drinks can be life changing or even fatal.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old Calum Macdonald is now blind and told his story for the first time, as one of several victims of a mass methanol poisoning in Vang Vieng, Laos last November.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#MethanolPoisoning #Alcohol #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of bereaved family and friends in the UK are calling for more awareness about the dangers of methanol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}