Even as we await the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, another infection named Tomato flu has made its way to Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Kerala has reported over 58 deaths and hospitalisations due to food poisoning this month — which is now retrospectively identified as the new flu.
Around 80 children have so far been infected with the Tomato flu and they are under the age of five years, as per media reports. But it is yet to be ascertained if it affects only children.