New Delhi: A central team will visit Andhra Pradesh to investigate a mysterious disease on Tuesday, said Union Healthy Ministry on Monday.

According to the Union Health Ministry’s memorandum, the team comprising Dr Jamshed Nayar, Associate Professor (Emergency Medicine), AIIMS, Dr Avinash Desohtawar, Virologist, NIV, Pune and Dr Sanket Kulkarni, Deputy Director, PH, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) will reach Eluru on Tuesday.

The team would make “an urgent visit to East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, to investigate the incident of sudden illness of people in an around Eluru, East Godavari District”, it stated. “The team should reach by tomorrow morning and submit a preliminary report by evening,” according to the office memorandum.

People afflicted with the mysterious disease suddenly fell unconscious after suffering from fits and nausea. It started in the One-Town area of Eluru and most of the victims were in the 20-30 age groups while there were about 45 children below the age of 12 years.