Altogether 22 persons were affected by diarrhoea at Baulgaon village in Odisha's Ganjam district, health department officials said today.
The villagers were taken ill after they had attended a feast on Thursday, they said.
The affected persons were admitted to the sub-divisional hospital in Chhatrapur, about 25 km from here today, an official said.
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"At present, 19 patients are undergoing treatment at hospital," he said.
He said a medical team which visited the village and detected three more cases there, were administered medicines, but did not require hospitalisation, the CDMO added.
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