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Welcome to the inquiry.
I'm Charmaine cosia.
Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, and an answer.
December 2024 officials in Turkey end the year with a chilling announcement.
In the past six weeks, 37 people have died across the country's largest city, Istanbul, after drinking bootleg alcohol.
Seventeen others also received hospital treatment for poisoning from toxic liquor.
A few weeks before, around 7,000 kilometers away in Laos, a sixth foreign tourist dies from drinking suspected poisoned alcohol in Laos.
In Southeast Asia, six foreign tourists died after drinking what was suspected to be contaminated alcoholic drinks.
Before that, in June, at least 4:56 deaths linked to locally brewed spirits reported in the Indian southern state, Tamil Nadu.
Bypassing laws and strict production standards to make or sell unsafe drinks can happen almost anywhere in the world.
So this week we're asking, is fake alcohol a global threat?
Part 1 the evil spirits.
So the problem of, you know, illicit alcohol is present actually in most parts of the world.
Dr.
Monica Swan is an alcohol epidemiologist and professor at the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services at Kennesaw State university in the U.S.
she's currently working in Uganda.