Patients hospitalized with mystery illness in India have excessive nickel and lead in blood ...

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Source: CNN

Patients hospitalized with mystery illness in India have excessive nickel and lead in blood, officials say

By Vedika Sud, Esha Mitra and Amy Woodyatt, CNN
Updated 12:45 PM ET, Tue December 8, 2020

New Delhi (CNN) - Health officials in India have found excessive amounts of lead and nickel in blood samples taken from patients who have been hospitalized in Andhra Pradesh, officials investigating the cases said Tuesday. More than 500 people have been hospitalized for an unidentified illness in southeastern India, according to Dolla Joshi Roy, the district surveillance officer of Eluru's West Godavari District. Patients reported a range of symptoms including seizures, loss of consciousness and some nausea over the weekend, Roy said.

Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's office said that preliminary results from an investigation conducted by an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) team found lead and nickel particulate matter in patient blood samples. "Similarly, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) is also running tests and the results are awaited," Reddy's office said in a statement.

The AIIMS team in Delhi tested 10 blood samples and found lead and nickel traces, according to Katamneni Bhaskar, the Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Twenty more samples are being sent from Andhra Pradesh to Delhi, and milk samples are also being tested. Water samples tested by AIIMS in Delhi did not find traces of lead and nickel, Bhaskar told CNN.

Of the 505 people to have been hospitalized, 300 people have been discharged and one person has died, Roy said on Tuesday. "The Public Health personnel and other department staff should also probe the issue deeply and find out the reasons for the illness," Reddy said. This comes as India continues to battle the Covid-19 pandemic, with the world's second-highest number of infections. Andhra Pradesh is one of the country's worst-affected states.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/india/india-illness-nickel-lead-intl-scli/index.html

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[apnu]

1. Nickel and Lead? In one place? Check the water supply.

[ArizonaLib]

2. It looks like the article quoted tests of the water - I think they are going to test local milk

unless I didn't read it correctly. But you are correct - those people consumed a large level of toxins from something.

[yaesu]

4. I remember back in the 80's? that a feed company in MI messed up & added dioxin to cattle feed

made a hell of a bio disaster in the area, wonder if something like that happened.

[42bambi]

3. Water is the likely source so I hope they are testing bottled water as well.

[mr_lebowski]

5. You'd think Water, Food, Air ... or maybe some snake-oil toxic 'medicine' ... nt

[Codeine]

6. I wouldn't be surprised to find it was a Covid "cure"

that caught on in that area.

[mr_lebowski]

8. That's what I was getting at ... (nt)

[LudwigPastorius]

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[ProfessorGAC]

9. Heavy Metals?

Just like in Flint, how did they not know there were dangerous levels of metals in a food or water source?
This is a VERY simple and routine analysis done with instruments that aren't terribly costly. (Atomic absorption instruments can qunatitate to single digit parts per billion.)
It doesn't take a transition metals chemist to do it, either. A modestly experienced tech could be trained & certified on those methods in under a month.
Answering my own question; they did know & did nothing until people started getting sick.