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QUITO, Ecuador — Authorities are trying to buy back half a million bottles of contaminated alcohol and end an outbreak of alcohol poisoning that has killed 48 people and sickened hundreds.
The country’s health minister says the liquor is tainted with methanol, or wood alcohol, which is used for industrial purposes. More than 500 people have been injured by the contaminated alcohol, with some left permanently blinded.
The alcohol came from small provincial providers that didn’t have the required health permits.
