{"id":69297,"date":"2025-02-04T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/04\/people-fear-eating-drinking-and-going-outside-anxiety-stalks-indian-village-after-mystery-illness-kills-17-people"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:00:07","slug":"people-fear-eating-drinking-and-going-outside-anxiety-stalks-indian-village-after-mystery-illness-kills-17-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69297","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People fear eating, drinking and going outside\u2019: anxiety stalks Indian village after mystery illness kills 17 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial suspicions of food poisoning have been ruled out but the authorities are taking no chances as they wait for lab results in the search for a cause<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter came to me, tugging at my shirt, and asked, \u2018Baba, if we drink water, will we die too?\u2019 What could I say to her?\u201d Talib Hussain\u2019s voice shakes as he describes the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2025\/Jan\/22\/rajouri-father-fears-for-his-life-and-surviving-children-after-losing-wife-and-three-kids-to-mystery-illness\">17 unexplained deaths in his village<\/a>, including 13 children, in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lived here for more than 50 years but I\u2019ve never seen anything like this. In the last two months, I have witnessed 17 funerals. It\u2019s more than we could ever comprehend. People fear eating, drinking, and even going outside. Our neighbourhood is being torn apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/04\/people-fear-eating-drinking-and-going-outside-anxiety-stalks-indian-village-after-mystery-illness-kills-17-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial suspicions of food poisoning have been ruled out but the authorities are taking no chances as they wait for lab results in the search for a cause\u201cMy daughter came to me, tugging at my shirt, and asked, \u2018Baba, if we drink water, will we die too?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69297\/revisions\/69298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}