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Hundreds of people were hospitalized in India due to a mysterious illness
At least one person died and 227 were hospitalized due to a mysterious illness in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
According to local health teams, patients present with a number of different symptoms, including nausea, seizures, and loss of consciousness.
The authorities are still investigating what could have made these people sick in the city of Eluru this weekend (5 and 6/12).
The health crisis emerged amid another health battle in India, the second most affected country by the coronavirus in the world.
The state of Andhra Pradesh, the site of the unknown disease outbreak, is also one of the hardest hit by COVID-19 in the country, with more than 800,000 infections.
But so far doctors and authorities have ruled out a relationship between covid-19 and the mysterious hospitalizations in recent days. According to Health Minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, all patients tested negative for the coronavirus.
So far, the tests have ruled out the link between covid-19 and the wave of hospitalizations in India.
“People who got sick, especially children, suddenly started vomiting after complaining of eye pain. Some faint or convulse, ”a doctor at the Eluru public hospital told The Indian Express newspaper.
Of the 227 people who were hospitalized, 70 were discharged and another 157 remain in the hospital.
Chief Minister of State Jaganmohan Reddy said that special medical teams are being sent to Eluru to investigate the cause of the disease among patients and their families.
Srinivas said the patients’ blood samples did not reveal any evidence of viral infection.
“We ruled out water pollution or air pollution as the cause after the authorities visited the areas where people got sick,” he said. “It is a mysterious disease and only laboratory tests will reveal exactly what it is.”
The opposition Telugu Desam party, on the other hand, called for a broad investigation into the incident, insisting that the cause of the mysterious illness was contamination.
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