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Russians suffering after drinking vodka to ward off Sars
Six Russian men suffered alcoholic poisoning after going on a week-long vodka binge to ward off Sars.
The men, from Blagoveschensk, thought the vodka would protect them from Chinese workers on a nearby building site.
Doctors who examined the men after they were admitted to hospital with alcohol poisoning said it would take a week for them to recover.
Russian scientists recently claimed that vodka could ward off the Sars virus.
In another incident, a woman who was drinking vodka to protect herself from Sars thought she had contracted the virus after getting drunk.
The 20-year-old, from the Russian city of Perm, went to doctors after what she claimed was “close contact with a Chinese man” at a local Chinese market, the Novy Region newspaper reported.
She complained of a pain in her throat after every shot of vodka, and that she was sweating and had a high temperature.
Doctors examined the woman and sent her home after discovering she was merely