In India, a new virus known as tomato flu or tomato fever spread and produces several symptoms that are proportional to Covid-19, such as fever, fatigue, and body pain. The name of the virus comes from a typical sign that does not exist from Covid: itchy and bright red lesions that spread throughout the body and eventually can enlarge to the diameter of the tomato. Although this virus is not common because the first incident was discovered on May 6 in the state of Kerala, at least 20-25 cases have been identified in India.
Lancet’s research states that there is no death associated with tomato flu to date. Researchers and public health authorities are still looking for new waves of cases, which include 82 examples recorded in children under the age of five in the environmental hospital in Kerala and about 25 cases in children aged between one year and nine in Tamil Nadu, neighboring country. According to this research, scientists are still looking for the origin of this disease, which has the same properties as several other broader pediatric diseases.
According to Vivek Chavda and his colleagues from L.M. Pharmacy College in Gujarat, India, “Tomato flu can be the end of Chikungunya or dengue fever in children than infectious agents,” they reported in Lancet. This virus may also be a new strain from the hands, feet, and mouth that is contagious, mainly affecting children and adults with immune system disorders between ages 1 and 5. After putting aside the sources of other possible diseases, patients in India are identified. This is because, similar to many other viral diseases, such as influenza, children with tomato fever may suffer from fatigue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, thirst, swelling of the joints, and body pain.
Dengue, infection transmitted by mosquitoes is dangerous for newborns and pregnant women, can cause all these symptoms. Like Chikungunya, other viruses spread by mosquitoes, symptoms of tomato flu can include high fever, rashes, and torturing joint pain.