Explainer-Mystery illness that hospitalized hundreds in India


  • World
  • Thursday, 10 Dec 2020

A doctor examines a young patient lying in a hospital bed at an Eluru hospital, after hundreds of people were hospitalised due to an unknown illness in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in this still frame taken from video dated December 9, 2020. ANI/Reuters TV/via REUTERS

BENGALURU, India (Reuters) - One person has died and nearly 600 have been hospitalised since Saturday in a southern Indian state due to a mysterious infection that caused many to fall unconscious after suffering giddiness, seizures and nausea.

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