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. 2020 Jul;37(7):416.
doi: 10.1136/emermed-2020-209886. Epub 2020 May 15.

Methanol toxicity outbreak: when fear of COVID-19 goes viral

Sepideh Sefidbakht  1 , Mehrzad Lotfi  1 , Reza Jalli  1 , Mohsen Moghadami  2 , Golnar Sabetian  3 , Pooya Iranpour  4
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Methanol toxicity outbreak: when fear of COVID-19 goes viral

Sepideh Sefidbakht et al. Emerg Med J. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: global health; infectious diseases, viral; poisoning; poisoning, mass incidents; toxicology.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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