have now risen to 23 in last week including two foreigners.
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Another foreigner dies in suspected alcohol poisoning
The Jakarta Post | Mon, 06/01/2009 7:50 PM | National
An American died on Monday from alleged alcohol poisoning after being treated for two days at Sanglah General Hospital, Bali, raising the total number of fatalities from the deadly alcohol mix to 23 in less than 10 days.
Forty-eight-year-old Rose Johnson was admitted to hospital on Saturday, suffering symptoms of severe poisoning, Sanglah's head of forensics, Ida Bagus Alit, said Monday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Samples of the patient's blood and stomach were sent to the National Police Laboratory in Denpasar.
Alit could not yet confirm the cause of Johnson's death, but said she had shown symptoms typically caused by consuming alcohol mixed with methanol.
Saturday saw the first death of a foreign victim in a spate of fatalities caused by suspected alcohol poisoning in Bali.
Earlier, a resident of Canggu, North Kuta, 59-year-old Briton Alan Colen, was found unconscious after having consumed arak that he had bought from a stall near his house. After being taken to Sanglah Hospital he was later pronounced dead by the attending physician.
The hospital had treated 51 people for alcohol poisoning since last Monday. Of that number, 18 are still undergoing treatment.
Mixing alcohol with other ingredients is not uncommon in Bali. Mixing arak with methanol increases the drink's alcohol content, in some cases to poisonous levels. (adh)