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As the heat built before the monsoon rains in the Indian state of Bihar to the north, hundreds of young children come down with a disease that kills many victims and leaves others brain damage. Now scientists believe they have unmasked the mystery culprit: a toxin in the fruit lychee. After an investigation of 2 years, the researchers suggest in the January 30 issue Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report as the results of the disease crashing sugar levels in the blood probably due to a lychee toxin known to cause hypoglycemia in rats. Two other groups fingered toxin Current Science and in the May issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases . The mechanism emphasizes the threat of similar toxins in fruits related to West Africa and the Caribbean, as well as a mushroom in China.
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↵ * Bangalore, India
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