More than 500 people fell ill and one dead as mystery illness hit India

Health officials and experts in India were left puzzled after a more than 500 people were rushed to the local hospital due to an unknown illness with one dead from the time of this writing.

The illness was first detected last Saturday in Eluru City in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh where people just started convulsing without any warnings. From then on, other symptoms emerged including nausea and anxiety with others just lost their consciousness.

Different theories were suggested to be the cause of the illness including contamination of food by pesticides and contamination of water supply. Tests were also being done to identify its causative agent but still haven’t return any results as of yet.

All patients were also tested for COVID-19 and other viral diseases and all of them returned negative.