Dropsy-related ailments pose new threat

  • 07/12/1997

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

While the spread of dropsy has been contained after it claimed 49 lives over six weeks, largely due to ban on sale and consumption of mustard oil, experts have adviced restraint for some more time, as dropsy-related afflictions of the eye, kidneys and heart and other ailments have emerged as a new threat.