Tomato fever

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Tomato fever is an unidentified fever found mostly in India. There is a debate on whether the disease is a viral fever or an aftereffect of chikungunya or dengue fever. Victims of the disease have rashes and skin irritation and show signs of dehydration on the tongue.[1][2][3]

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  1. "'Tomato Fever' Replaces Chikungunya in Kerala". Medindia. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  2. Correspondent, Akhel Mathew, (12 July 2007). "Kerala districts reel under fever epidemic". Retrieved 17 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Rat fever, tomato fever detected in Thiruvananthapuram city". Retrieved 17 January 2018.


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