FILE — In this Wednesday, March 25, 2020 file photo, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard disinfects a taxi to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in downtown Tehran, Iran. Local media reported Thursday that nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened by ingesting toxic methanol across the Islamic Republic out of the false belief it kills the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
March 27, 2020
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In Iran, false belief a poison fights virus kills hundreds
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus.