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  • officials in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are still struggling to identify a mysterious illness after the number of people affected continues to rise.

  • 300 people off all ages have reported symptoms in the last two days, including seizures, dizziness and vomiting.

  • One man has died.

  • I'm joined now by the BBC Zip de Bonafini, who is in Hyderabad for us.

  • What is the very latest from medical officials were there.

  • What do they think is causing this right now?

  • They're still yet to determine what has caused this illness because they're the test.

  • Samples have come back there initially collected blood samples and the spinal fluid samples from the victim's of Russia were us to the hospital yesterday and day before yesterday.

  • And the best reports have come back normal from Rita's blood samples and his final Florida samples.

  • For now, they have sent the samples for further analysis to be for the for cellular and molecular analysis, and those test reports are awaited and the authorities are conducting door to door medical campaign medical emergency campaigns to see if there are any other people who are suffering.

  • Mild symptoms are similar symptoms in the town to see what must have caused this.

  • But now they get to determine what has caused this illness.

  • But right now, the priority of the authority seems thio contain the panic in the town so that the people of the focus seems to be on containing the panic.

  • So that while they did, I mean, water has caused the sickness.

  • Havel, those people in hospital right now.

  • And those effects of being tested for coronavirus?

  • Yes, all of them.

  • The initial desk, the first tests that were conducted on them.

  • Where?

  • For the coronavirus on, uh, The authorities have told us that all of them have tested negative for coronavirus.

  • So that has been eliminated as because a za reason off the off this illness eso After that, they have went on to determine what must have cost.

  • So that is where the blood samples and the spinal, Because some of them have complained off spinal pain on also fatigue.

  • So the spinal fluid from the victims from the patients who have been rushed to the hospital, those who also have been collected on all those desk reports have come back normal.

  • But while the reports of the death sandals have also been sent to biology labs across the country to determine if there are any other virus that must have caused this and dipped er Children affected by this as well.

  • Yes, across the age groups, there is no particular age group are political agenda which has been affected.

  • It is across the age groups who are who have been affected by this illness.

  • Well, when we spoke to the health official this afternoon, there she she seemed Thio.

  • She said that what she has observed from the patients who have been brought to hospital, most of them were meant.

  • But yes, there were.

  • There were the size of the number of women and Children who are at the hospital receiving treatment.

  • Did you thanks for updating us from Hyderabad on that mysterious illness affecting several 100 people there.

officials in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are still struggling to identify a mysterious illness after the number of people affected continues to rise.

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