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‘Tomato fever’ row continues

The controversy over ‘tomato fever’ is not yet over.

If the Health Ministry is indignant about the fact that it took a medical team from the Centre to give a diagnosis of chicken pox, doctors are equally, if not more, incensed.

“What has not appeared in the media is the fact that the doctor in Pathanamthitta, who first examined this particular patient, has clearly written his diagnosis in the original case sheet as ‘chicken pox.’ But, none were willing to believe it,” a public health activist said. Most of the doctors in Pathanamthitta were seeing the clinical manifestations of chikungunya for the first time.

With so much media attention focussed on the outbreak, doctors were not willing to declare anything in the open, he said.

C. Maya

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