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About 340 people have been hospitalized in South India over the weekend after suffering from a mysterious illness. The opposition believes that the cause is water pollution.
Patients suffer from nausea, headaches and seizures that, for many, lead to unconsciousness, said a spokesman for the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The outbreak was registered in the town of Eluru on Saturday. Blood tests have not revealed any viruses and 168 of the 340 patients have been discharged so far.
It is happening at the same time that India continues to fight the corona pandemic. India has the second highest number of infected in the world.
The specialists have traveled to Eluru to find out what kind of disease it is, while at the same time they have launched a door-to-door operation to find out if more people have gotten sick.
An opposition party believes that the cause must be water contamination and accuses the authorities of not taking the problem seriously.
Andhra Pradesh is one of the worst affected regions with more than 800,000 corona infected.
But covid-19 does not appear to be the reason for the hospitalizations this weekend. The state’s Health Minister, Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, says according to the BBC that all the patients tested negative for the crown.
– People who got sick, especially children, suddenly started vomiting after complaining of burning eyes. Some of them fainted or had seizures, a medical representative from Eluru Government Hospital told The Indian Express.
