Monday, August 22, 2022

A New Disease Emerging In India: Symptoms Akin To Covid-19 But With Added Monkeypox-like Blisters

And it goes after kids.

From The West Australian, August 22:

Fears the mysterious ‘tomato flu’ could arrive in Australia and infect children aged five and under

A mysterious “tomato flu” has been detected in India and now there are fears it is “likely” to spread to Australia.

The rare viral infection was first detected in Kerala, India on May 6 and has so far infected more than 80 children under the age of five.

Ashley Quigley, who leads artificial intelligence-driven system EPIWATCH at the Kirby Institute, told NCA NewsWire on Monday there was a risk tomato flu could arrive in Australia.

“I think it’s realistic to think that it could get here,” she said.

“If we start seeing reports in other neighbouring countries, and we can track it back and say in two months it’s in three to five different countries, then the likelihood is actually very high of it coming to Australia.

“But in the last two or three months, it has remained in India.”

Although much is still unknown about tomato flu, Ms Quigley said if it turned out to be a variant of hand, foot and mouth disease, then the likelihood of it spreading to Australia from international travel was “really quite high”....

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