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Mistaken diagnosis
The build-up of speculation over the last few weeks on what was dubbed as ‘tomato fever’ turned out to be a damp squib with the report that itchy skin rashes were typical of chikungunya and that there was no new virus in circulation in the State.
The case of one of the patients from Pathanamthitta, prominently reported in the media as ‘tomato fever’, is a case of chicken pox, it has now been said.
The public would certainly be relieved to hear this, but the Health Ministry is outraged.“We are cutting such a sorry figure before the Centre. Why do we always need a team of scientists from the Centre to tell us what we already know? Was there no doctor in the district who could identify and confirm that the particular case was Chicken pox?,” a senior health official asks furiously.
The media speculation over the fever outbreak has been so intense that no doctor now wants to openly commit anything, he feels.
C. Maya
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