India, Feb. 7 -- The Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) outbreak reported in Pune and other parts of India could indicate unhygienic water contamination on a very large scale - and a current potential example of this would be a site like the Maha Kumbh Mela, where the primary infections that can trigger GBS could have spread to millions of devotees in a very short time, an expert has said.

Jessy Skaria, a doctor and independent researcher, has said that the antecedent infections triggering GBS could have spread among crowds through faecal-oral or droplet transmission, resulting in this rare outbreak of over 100 GBS cases.

The GBS outbreak in Pune and its surrounding regions have been caused by Campylobacter jejuni and norovirus, primary inv...