India, Aug. 7 -- A Canadian woman who lost her eyesight after she drank a toxic cocktail while on a holiday in Bali is now warning social media users to be careful while consuming booze. Her warning comes months after seven tourists were hospitalised in Fiji after drinking tainted booze at a luxury resort bar and six travellers died in Laos under similar circumstances.

The tourists got sick or died after they unknowingly consumed alcoholic beverages mixed with methanol. "It smells no different and it tastes no different from the alcohol that we typically drink," said Ashley King, who went blind after drinking a cocktail laced with methanol while backpacking through Bali.

While methanol, which is clear and colourless, smells like ethanol...