What is tomato flu, the new virus in Kerala?
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As India slowly starts to recover from the brutal COVID-19 waves and attempts to understand monkeypox, a new virus is emerging in Kerala. According to a report in the medical journal Lancet, Kerala has recorded 82 cases of a new ailment- tomato flu or tomato fever. The ailment gets its name from the "red and painful blisters throughout the body that gradually enlarge to the size of a tomato," the Lancet report says.