Posted on 12/08/2020 2:35:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
More than 500 people have been hospitalized for an unidentified illness in southeastern India, according to Dolla Joshi Roy, the district surveillance officer of Eluru's West Godavari District. Patients reported a range of symptoms including seizures, loss of consciousness and some nausea over the weekend, Roy said.
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's office said that preliminary results from an investigation conducted by an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) team found lead and nickel particulate matter in patient blood samples.
The AIIMS team in Delhi tested 10 blood samples and found lead and nickel traces, according to Katamneni Bhaskar, the Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Twenty more samples are being sent from Andhra Pradesh to Delhi, and milk samples are also being tested.
Water samples tested by AIIMS in Delhi did not find traces of lead and nickel, Bhaskar told CNN.
Of the 505 people to have been hospitalized, 300 people have been discharged and one person has died, Roy said on Tuesday.
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From all the pollution, but God forbid you ever hear the left even mention it. Same with China. Those countries are off limits, only the USA is the great polluter and must pay.
Bhopal.
Quit drinking from the Ghanges River!
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Other state officials had suggested that an organochlorine substance, found in pesticides, may have poisoned the patients.
Prasadini said that theory was also being tested as such pesticides were common in the area, and the patients may have eaten vegetables that contained traces of the chemicals.
https://news.yahoo.com/know-mystery-illness-india-more-184500486.html
Dr Gregory House would have solved this in less than an hour, after eliminating lupus and sarcoidosis and popping a couple Vicodins.
I would suspect it was some dietary thing. That is, the adulteration with some toxic substance of a commonly consumed food product.
This happened with wine in France about 10 years ago (addition of radiator fluid), olive oil in Spain (addition of an inedible toxic machine oil) even before that and has happened several times with similar products in the ME.
not only there. central america, south america and africa the pollution kings. Sarc, it’s only right slo joe spends a trillion of our money to clean their mess up. It’s for the greater good dontcha know
One of two of the most filthy shithole countries on the planet, Communist China is the other.
Lead and nickel PARTICULATE matter? Maybe lead and nickel ions or atoms....but particulates? That would have to given by iv or im injection. Would have to hurt.
I was recently surprised to find steel pans have a lot of nickel in them. I read you can tell by seeing if a magnet will stick to the pan. I was amazed to see my strong magnet not stick at all to my stainless steel cookware.
Yep....pollution based likely....tons of that in India...land river and air. They have a very long way to go in that country.
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