50 nigerians died after drinking "monkey tail drink" and 100 went to hospital in near-death statehttps://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000012282034.htmlthis is how the drink works:fermented monkey tail in a bucket is eventually distilled in a moonshine distillery into pure alcohol182 people drank from the same batch in a huge partysome 30 ended up in mild enogh symptoms so that they were not hospitalized, either they didnt drink mutch or they drink pure vodka in addition to this weird drink, so much that extra ethanol in their system saved thema chemist analyzed a batch of the liquid in a lab and said "it contains too much methanol versus ethanol and so it becomes lethal"methanol is lethal to humans but if you are very intoxicated from ethanol, then ethanol takes over the alcohol oxidaze enzyme and methanol never has time to metabolize in human bodymethanol itself is not immediately a problem but it oxidizes in a liver into a lethal formaldehyde, and formaldehyde will not form if you have so much ethanol in your liver that all oxidization products are acetaldehyde instead of formaldehyde
