<story><title>Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/lychee-identified-as-cause-for-mystery-indian-childhood-illness/8233964</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>For those similarly annoyed by its elision in the article, the causative substance appears (1) to be hypoglycin A (2).&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4412228&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4412228&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hypoglycin_A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hypoglycin_A&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/lychee-identified-as-cause-for-mystery-indian-childhood-illness/8233964</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkagenius</author><text>Can confirm as I am from Bihar, India, children eat lots of lychees in the season (also lots of mangoes), even many adults eat just lychee the whole day without any other meal. Seizures were considered as being possessed by demon which explains lack of research and delay in this discovery.</text></comment>