Single-patient methanol intoxications are a common clinical presentation, but outbreaks are rare and usually occur in settings in which there is limited access to ethanol and methanol is consumed as a substitute. In this case report, we describe an outbreak of methanol intoxications that was challenging from a public health perspective and discuss strategies for managing such an outbreak.
Keywords: Methanol; alcohol dehydrogenase inhibition; case reports; contact tracing; folinic acid; fomepizole; hemodialysis; intoxication; outbreak; poisoning; public health; remote medicine; toxic alcohol ingestion.
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