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The disease appeared on Saturday night in the city of Eluru in Andhra Pradesh state. This city is especially known for its handwoven products.
According to the AP news agency, the symptoms are described by local doctors as nausea, headaches and anxiety attacks. These early symptoms often cause patients to lose consciousness.
Lose consciousness
Blood tests have not revealed any viruses and 168 of the 340 patients have been discharged so far.
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 contaminated water and accuses the authorities of not taking the problem seriously.
A 45-year-old man who was hospitalized with epilepsy-like symptoms died Sunday night. The Press Trust of India news agency reports.
Representatives of the authorities are trying to find out the cause of the mysterious and unknown disease.
So far, the water samples they have tested have shown no signs of being contaminated.
Hard hit by covid-19
Patients have also had to get tested for the coronavirus. None of the patients have tested positive for COVID-19 so far.
Andhra Pradesh is one of the states in India most affected by covid-19. Here, more than 800,000 have tested positive.
Andhra Pradesh CEO YS Jagan Mohan Reddy visited a public hospital over the weekend and met with sick patients.
The opposition leader, N. Chandrababu Naidu, demanded an impartial investigation into the incident on Twitter.
The healthcare system in this state, as in the rest of India, has been put to the test for the virus.
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