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India: Spread of tomato fever raises new warning

Experts point out that this ‘new virus’ won’t become an epidemic because it doesn’t spread very quickly | Font: AFP | Photographer: SAJAD HUSSEIN

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The spread in India of a new childhood disease known as tomato feverdue to red and painful blisters, the nation’s most populous state issued a circular this Friday following a similar warning from the central government.

“Diseases of the hands, foot-and-mouth disease are not uncommon in the south India and (tomato fever) is closely related to it. Currently, the clinical analysis is such that this is an option,” he said. EFE public health expert and former director of the National Health System Resource Center (NHSRC) T. Sundararaman.

experts say

Described as a “new virus” in an article published last week in a medical journal. Lancetthe first case was identified in the southern state of Kerala on 6 May.

According to the authors, tomato fever It mainly affects children under the age of five, and at least 82 cases have been identified in Kerala, in addition to 26 in the eastern state of Odisha.

Symptoms include “high fever, rash, and severe joint pain” and “appearance of red, painful blisters all over the body that gradually grow to the size of a tomato,” although the study authors note that this is not the case. mortal.

The northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday issued a circular advising parents to instruct their children “not to hug or touch other children who have symptoms of a fever or rash,” local news agency IANS reported.

The warning is added to the warning issued Indian government This week.

Doesn’t spread easily

The good news, according to Sundararaman, is that it’s a self-limiting disease that “doesn’t spread very quickly,” though the rise in cases raises questions.

“I’m not sure if the disease surveillance system is up to the task, although of course places like Kerala have better systems,” he explained.

“But it is very easy to isolate because it is very noticeable, if the public health sector is activated, then we will not have epidemicSundararaman said.

The authorities indicated that at the moment there is no specific treatment for this disease, also similar to chikungunya or dengue, so therapy is limited to medications such as paracetamol. (EFE)

Source: RPP

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