For the first time ever, dengue fever was followed by a tomato flu-like sickness in an adult in Nepal. Tomato flu is on the rise in Nepal.
On May 6, 2022, the Kollam district of Kerala, India, reported the first cases of tomato flu. Since then, hundreds of kids—mostly those under nine—have been impacted, reports Kathmandupost. The cause of this outbreak was unknown at the time, but since the symptoms in children resembled those of the chikungunya virus, including peculiar tomato-shaped r...