More than 80 cases!"Tomato flu" invades India. Children under 5 years old are the main infected people

[Global Times Special Reporter Cheng Shi Ji] "India Today" reported on the 21st that in the context of the continuous context of the new crown pneumonia, India recently reported more than 80 cases of "tomato flu" in succession. Coupled with the popularity of monkey acne in many places around the world, it also appeared in India, and the country's sanitary epidemic prevention was under pressure.

According to the magazine of "Liu Ye Dao", "tomato flu" is a type of hand, foot and mouth disease. Tomato flu ". Symptoms also include high fever, nausea, diarrhea, dehydration, joint swelling and physical pain. "Tomato flu" is more infectious, and the main infected people are children with low immunity under 5 years of age. The mortality rate of the virus infection is low, mainly depending on whether the patient gets good nutrition and care, but the 58 cases of death are currently children. It is reported that the "tomato flu" infection was first discovered in May this year that it originated in the Kararabon in southern India and has spread to the neighboring Tamil Nadbon. The researchers compare the rash water caused by "tomato flu" with the monkey acne; compared the symptoms of fever with dengue fever, Ken Kong Kenya fever and hand, foot and mouth disease. Sequelance.

Some experts analyzed that because Karara is one of the best local states in India's medical conditions, it can be better detected and screened out of these two new viruses, and to prevent further transmission of viruses through a more scientific isolation strategy. However, in other parts of India, due to the poor medical conditions, these two viruses are likely to be spread outside the statistics of infectious diseases, and there is a large -scale popular risk.

At the same time, a new wave of new crown pneumonia is attacking India. According to the "India Express" report, New Delhi has added more than 2,000 new crown cases for 11 consecutive days from August 2, and no significant improvement has been seen in the next week. John Hopkins University data shows that on August 20, India added 11,539 new cases of new crown pneumonia and 43 deaths.

According to the "Nature" magazine, in the new round of new crowns in India, over 2/3 cases of Omikon BA.2.75 are different from BA.5, which are mainly popular in other parts of the world. Expert analysis believes that this may be related to India's largest Delta infection in the world. Because the genetic structure of BA.5 is more similar to Delta, the variant does not have an advantage when spreading in India.

The epidemic of the monkey acne also caused some concerns in India. It is reported that since a patient died in the disease in Karara on July 30, India began to pay attention to and screen the disease, and currently finds 10 patients.

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