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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Freya Hodgson

Tomato flu: Symptoms and warning signs of the 'highly contagious' virus

Medics in India have warned of a “highly contagious” illness that is spreading among children after being first identified in May this year.

Known as tomato flu, the disease has infected 82 children under the age of five so far, all of whom are in India.

The illness has been named after its most obvious feature - the nasty red blisters that appear on the skin and grow to the size of a tomato.

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