At least 42 folks have died after consuming inflamed bootleg alcohol in Iran, a government spokesman said.
Health ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi mentioned 16 folks had lengthy earlier blind and 170 had undergone dialysis after trying the tainted drink.
In the earlier three weeks, on the very least 460 folks during five provinces have been hospitalised, with the youngest victim a 19-year-old woman.
Alcohol is illegal in Iran but bootleg booze is widespread.
However, ethanol is typically reportedly replaced with toxic methanol in the inflamed drink.
Police in the southern city of Bandar Abbas last week arrested a couple for allegedly producing home-made alcohol.
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BBC Persian's Rana Rahimpour says it is now now not unusual for tainted alcohol to cause injuries or deaths in Iran, but what is amazing is the tremendous numbers of deaths and the spread of the situation to a couple of provinces.
Analysts spoken to by way of the BBC's Persian service belief the monetary impact of the US pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal would possibly be playing a part.
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With the collapse in the value of the Iranian foreign exchange toward the dollar, folks would possibly be turning to cheap, homemade alcohol over expensive world imports.
Iranian anti-drugs officials belief that every year 80 million litres of alcohol fee $730 million (£559m) is smuggled into Iran.
Iranian Muslims have been barred from consuming alcohol as a result of the truth that the country's revolution in 1979.
Article 265 of Iran's Islamic penal code states that the punishment for consumption of alcohol by way of a Muslim is 80 lashes.
There is still it an exemption for non-Muslim citizens to provide alcohol for their very own consumption or for religious purposes, simply identical to the Eucharist.
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