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Indian doctors find lead, nickel in blood samples after more than 400 people suffer mystery illness
Indian authorities say they have found traces of lead and nickel particles in blood samples after hundreds of people were hospitalised due to an unknown illness in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Key points:
- Hundreds of people, most of them children, have been hospitalised in India’s Andhra Pradesh state
- Despite India recording the most coronavirus cases in Asia, the patients tested negative for COVID-19
- Scientists suspect the people may be poisoned with organochlorine substances which are used in some pesticides
Teams of doctors, including those from New Delhi’s premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), are investigating the death of one person and hospitalisation of more than 400 in the past few days.
Andhra Pradesh’s…
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