Overview
- The two friends, aged 29 and 42, drank cognac bought at a local market and began feeling unwell about 40 minutes later on Tuesday, producing sudden loss of vision for one and altered hearing for the other.
- Both men were first treated at the Hospital de Mutuípe, transferred to the Hospital Regional de Santo Antônio de Jesus for further care, received medications described by family as for detoxification, and were discharged on Wednesday.
- State and municipal health authorities have publicly discarded methanol poisoning as the cause and say surveillance teams remain on alert while they continue to follow the cases.
- The Polícia Civil’s Delegacia Territorial in Mutuípe is investigating the bottle’s provenance and the circumstances of consumption and has questioned the patients as part of efforts to determine whether the drink caused the symptoms.
- Family members say the hospital has not shared the results of exams performed during treatment, which leaves the medical cause unconfirmed and makes police laboratory analysis of the seized bottle the main path to clarity.