An on-site investigation of two people in China who were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning after eating grilled meat in their small home without opening the windows (without ventilation). This is scary.
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China’s CO poisoning mortality rate exceeds the world average
The act of using charcoal and surrounding a fire in a closed room like this one has repeatedly led to carbon monoxide poisoning accidents in China during the winter. In 2019, the number of deaths due to carbon monoxide poisoning in China was approximately 15,000, and the age-standardized death rate per 100,000 people was 0.93, which was lower than 1.18 in 1990, but is still at a high level compared to the world as a whole and many other countries.
In fact, in December 2023, six people who were eating charcoal hotpot in a private room at a restaurant in Anyang County, Henan Province were poisoned by carbon monoxide, resulting in three deaths, and in the same month, an accident occurred in a rented house in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, in which 29 people were poisoned. In both cases, the cause was said to be the boiler or charcoal fire being placed in a closed space with no ventilation, and it stands to reason that the same pattern of “lack of ventilation” is being repeated.
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