Wild weed has claimed at least 200 children in Western U P, India

posted by   ruchir (1089)   15 months ago (www.livemint.com)

A disease outbreak in western U.P., which has claimed at least 200 children according to the last official count in 2005, may not have come from a virus at all as government reports maintain, but from poisoning by a wild, abundantly growing weed called coffee senna (cassia occidentalis), say Indian Journal of Medical Research and Indian Paediatrics