Woman Denied Liver Transplant Due to Alcoholism—but She Hadn’t Had a Drop to Drink

Rare Condition

In 2014, the driver of a truck that spilled 11,000 salmon onto a highway claimed to have auto-brewery syndrome. A year later, a woman in New York was received a DUI after registering a blood alcohol level over four times the legal limit, but the case was thrown out after it was proven that she had auto-brewery syndrome.

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