If you're like me, then you are FULLY invested in and totally terrified about what is happening in the Dominican Republic with American tourists suddenly dying.
We still have no idea how or why these people are dying but there's been one mysterious link that's being reported between a few of the unexplainable deaths.
The alcohol in the minibar.
Three out of nine American tourists who have died in the Dominican Republic in the past year had a drink from their minibar.
Tom Inglesby, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told the New York Times the deaths were consistent with "poisoning."
Now, I don't know about you, but when I think of a minibar I think of this:
But that's not what these minibars look like in some of these resorts.
The minibars at these resorts look like this:
It's a literal bottle of booze with an open spout.
Last week, the New York Post posted about bootleg liquor being a possible cause for these deaths.
According to the Post, authorities are looking into if "tainted minibar liquor" is the cause.
So what's bootleg/tainted alcohol? Bootleg alcohol is sometimes cut with methanol. Methanol is a chemical in antifreeze and highly toxic for humans.
BASICALLY, this "bootleg alcohol theory" is just that, a theory. We are still missing a lot of answers in this story.
