amaravati at least 22 people fell ill in eluru city and a nearby mandal headquarters in west godavari district of andhra pradesh on friday but deputy chief minister health a k k srinivas suspected there could be a conspiracy behind it this comes more than a month after several hundred people in eluru fell ill with symptoms of nausea in the first week of december last year the deputy chief minister who visited poolla in west godavari district and enquired about the situation from the victims families said they could not rule out a conspiracy behind the outbreak of the mysterious illness we are thinking if there is a conspiracy we have this suspicion going by what the people here said so we cant rule that out but we cant confirm that as well srinivas told a telugu television news channel official sources said the 22 persons suddenly fell unconscious as froth oozed from their mouths and they complained of giddiness six of these patients have been discharged after treatment while 15 were admitted to the district hospital in eluru another person was getting treated in the local hospital in poolla mandal headquarters a senior official said we have collected water and food samples from the houses of the victims and also nearby hotels and the wholesale vegetable market at gundugolanu we are collecting samples of meat chicken milk rice and fertilisers used in paddy cultivation he added chief secretary aditya nath das principal secretary health anil kumar singhal health commissioner katamaneni bhaskar rushed to eluru to take stock of the situation several hundred people in eluru city fell ill with symptoms of fits and nausea in december last year experts from various national research institutes established that organochlorine substances were the causative agents of the disease but drinking water was ruled out as a cause the disease subsided in less than a week and when things appeared to be returning to normal some people in poolla started falling ill again since thursday medicare is being provided to the affected people in poolla gundugolanu as well apart from the district hospital in eluru