Earlier this year, several American tourists in the Dominican Republic reportedly died after drinking tainted alcohol at several resorts. According to a toxicology report just released by the FBI, however, those tourists actually died of natural causes, meaning your next vacation to the DR doesn’t have to be a sober one.
“Methanol poisoning from tainted alcohol was ruled out by the FBI in these cases during the toxicology screening,” said a State Department official, “and it was not the finding in any other cases of U.S. citizen deaths investigated by Dominican authorities.”