A new "highly contagious" disease is spreading among children.
Doctors say the symptoms overlap with many other illnesses, including the flu and her Covid.
But the most obvious feature is the angry blisters that grow to the size of a tomato. This is where the name comes from.
To date, 82 children have been diagnosed. All of them are in India.
No cases have been reported abroad, and it is not clear what the risk of spread to other countries is.
All children under the age of five and not experiencing serious illness.
As he wrote in the medical journal The Lancet, doctors feared that Tomato's flu was "highly contagious" and could spread to adults. It says it does.
Symptoms they described were:
- Fatigue
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Fever
- Dehydration
- swollen joints
- body aches
- rashes (blisters)
Regarding rashes in children, they said: A body that gradually grows to the size of a tomato.
They compared rash blisters in children with monkeypox blisters.
The feverish symptoms are similar to dengue and chikungunya, both of which are mosquito-borne in other parts of the world, including Asia.
Indeed, tomato flu may be a 'sequence' of these two viruses, medical officials report.
Interestingly, however, Indian health experts believe the infection is a new variant of hand-foot-and-mouth disease, local media reports .
Hand, foot and mouth disease is common in children worldwide, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, and can also affect adults.
Initially, symptoms include sore throat, high fever, and loss of appetite, followed by mouth sores and rashes.
I get blisters on my hands, feet and buttocks.
Doctors wrote in The Lancet: likewise.
They added that it is important to isolate infected people to prevent the infection from spreading further than the southern Indian state of Kerala, where it was first discovered.
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