Indian media said that the tomato influenza virus is spreading in some states of India, after 26 cases were recently discovered in the eastern state of Odisha, which aroused the interest of health authorities.
The Indian newspapers added that the enterovirus that affects children and is rare among adults has appeared at the beginning of this month in some southern states, such as “Kerala”, and it causes a rash on the hands, mouth, and feet with high body temperature and dehydration among children in the age group. Between five and nine.
The Indian media indicated that the disease is highly contagious and requires isolation of the case from five days to a week, but it is not a serious disease and is easy to cure if treated.
The virus is called “hand, foot, and mouth disease”, which is its scientific name, but it got the name “tomato virus” because of the red color of the blisters that spread on the body of children with the disease.
And health officials in the state of Odisha revealed that the cases infected with the virus are stable and have not posed any danger so far, with a warning to the rest of the Indian states to take health measures at the borders to prevent the spread of the virus among children.