Nepal now dealing with tomato flu?

For the first time, Nepal observed tomato flu-like illness in an adult, followed by dengue fever.

Tomato flu first drew the attention of clinicians in the Kollam district of Kerala, India, on 6th May 2022. Since then, hundreds of children have been affected, mostly under the age of nine. The causative agent for this outbreak was unknown at the time, but symptoms in children were found similar to those of chikungunya virus, including unusual tomato-shaped red rashes and blisters, and hence, it was dubbed as tomato flu.