{"id":166466,"date":"2025-01-30T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=166466"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:53:14","slug":"indias-research-body-rules-out-infection-in-rajouri-deaths-points-to-toxins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/01\/30\/indias-research-body-rules-out-infection-in-rajouri-deaths-points-to-toxins.html","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s research body rules out infection in Rajouri deaths, points to toxins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"New Delhi: India\u2019s premier health research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has ruled out infectious agents as the cause behind the mysterious deaths in Rajouri\u2019s Badhaal village, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, shifting the focus of the investigation to possible toxic substances.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, ICMR confirmed that extensive tests for bacteria, viruses, and fungi found no evidence of a communicable disease behind the 17 deaths.<\/p>\n

Experts now believe that a toxin\u2014potentially from food, water, pesticides, heavy metals, or volatile substances\u2014may be responsible. The investigation has been handed over to toxicology labs, including the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) in Lucknow and the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) in Gwalior.<\/p>\n

However, concerns have been raised about the limited capacity as well as liberty of Indian labs to test for the full range of possible toxins, with officials hinting at the possibility of seeking international assistance if domestic efforts fail to identify the culprit.
\nIt is noteworthy that local residents have already accused the Indian Army of deliberately contaminating the village’s water source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi: India\u2019s premier health research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has ruled out infectious agents as the cause behind the mysterious deaths in Rajouri\u2019s Badhaal village, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, shifting the focus of the investigation to possible toxic substances. According to Kashmir Media Service, ICMR confirmed that extensive …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-166466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/rajouri-deaths-232534826-16x9_0.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}