Brassica juncea Besides India, widespread<unk> s have been reported from Mauritius, Fiji Islands, Northwest Cape districts of South Africa, Madagascar and also from Nepal. Apart from a South African study, where the<unk>  occurred through contamination in wheat flour, all the<unk> s occurred through the consumption of mustard oil contaminated with argemone oil. In these cultural populations mustard oil is the prime edible oil. The earliest reference to argemone oil poisoning was made by Lyon, who reported four cases of poisoning in Calcutta in 1877 from the use of this oil in food. Since then,<unk>  has been reported from Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and Maharashtra, mainly due to consumption of food cooked in argemone oil mixed with mustard oil or occasionally by body massage with contaminated oil. The<unk>  in 1998 at New Delhi, India is the largest so far, in which over 60 persons lost their lives and more than 3000 victims were hospitalized. Few studies reported the findings in patients affected with this condition. Even after that the<unk> s occurred at alarming frequency in Gwalior (2000), Kannauj (2002) and Lucknow (2005) cities of India. 6 possible cases with 2 deaths were reported in Gundari village in Banaskantha district of Gujarat in India were reported in June 2021.
Epidemic dropsy
Brain fever
Tomato fever
Cat Scratch Fever
Pappataci fever
Death rattle
Relapsing fever
Sandfly fever