Overview

• The Health Ministry reports 225 notifications nationwide, with 16 laboratory-confirmed cases and 209 under investigation.
• São Paulo accounts for 192 notifications (14 confirmed and 178 under review), and two deaths in the state have been confirmed as caused by methanol.
• Police actions in São Paulo include 41 arrests, 11 establishments interdicted, and roughly 7,000 seized bottles since September 29, alongside tens of thousands of fake labels.
• Federal authorities are reinforcing treatment capacity with 2,500 doses of fomepizol and 12,000 additional vials of pharmaceutical ethanol, supplementing existing stocks.
• Officials urge the public to avoid suspicious distilled beverages—especially screw-cap bottles—and to seek immediate care for symptoms, with exposures linked to bars and adegas in São Paulo’s south zone and São Bernardo do Campo.