At least one person has died and more than 450 others have been hospitalised due to a mystery illness that has broken out in southeastern India. Indian health authorities are baffled by the reason behind why large numbers of residents in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh are collapsing and experiencing seizures and nausea. Widespread water contamination and COVID-19 have been ruled out as the cause.

Hundreds sick, one dead after unexplained illness breaks out in India