Context: Amid Covid comcerns, Kerala's Kollam district where children below five years of age have been suffering from a viral infection, called 'tomato flu'.
About Tomato Flu

• In tomato flu, also known as tomato fever, children experience undiagnosed fever.
• It is unknown if the condition is caused by a viral fever or is a side effect of chikungunya or dengue virus infection.

Symptoms

• An infected child experiences rashes, skin irritation and dehydration.
• This causes blisters on several parts of the body.
• The shape of blisters is generally red, and thus it is called tomato fever.
• Other symptoms: tiredness, joint pain, high fever, body aches, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea, Discolouration of the hands, knees.