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, India. The first patients were admitted to hospital on Saturday in Eluru, a town in Andhra Pradesh state. Read MoreBy Sunday, according to the federal health ministry, there were more than 200 people hospitalised, suffering dizziness, headache and vomiting. The elevated lead levels could have been a trigger, especially as the levels appeared to drop among patients a day after hospitalisation, doctors say. It was not immediately clear how extensively the chemicals are used in India, though they are found in DDT used in mosquito control.

Source: Standard Digital December 10, 2020 14:41 UTC