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Hi!
Today, after the second period the attainder told me that Abhishek was in the sick room. He had told me in the morning that he was having some sort of body pain but I thought he was up to some prank. Maybe, some excuse for staying at home instead of going to school. Being in the same school where I teach, he sometimes is a source of embarrassment for me and I literally crawl under my table when I see any of his teachers approaching. But today it seems, I should give him a benefit of doubt, I took him to the pediatrician who confirmed it to be some sort of viral infection. Whole Kerala seems to be in the grip of chikunguniya or ‘Tomato fever’. Attendance in the class is very low. Many teachers too are on leave and when they return quite a few have red tomato like sores on face or elsewhere on the body.
Chikunguniya epidemic had broken out in Kerala in 2006 in the otherwise reputed state for health care. It is caused due to alpha virus and the vector is aedes mosquito. The symptoms include headache, body pain, joint pain and rashes. There can be sores resembling a tomato from which some liquid oozes out (hence the name ‘tomato fever’). Fever can remain for two to three days and then end abruptly. If you have any of the symptoms mentioned above you better to consult your doctor and get treatment immediately.
Also you should have proper rest for two days and not go to school. Please see that you avoid mosquitoes to prevent passing the viruses to them and making them a vector! Ha ha! But I am serious about it.
Take care dear children and keep dreaming…..keep aspiring!
Hi!
Today, after the second period the attainder told me that Abhishek was in the sick room. He had told me in the morning that he was having some sort of body pain but I thought he was up to some prank. Maybe, some excuse for staying at home instead of going to school. Being in the same school where I teach, he sometimes is a source of embarrassment for me and I literally crawl under my table when I see any of his teachers approaching. But today it seems, I should give him a benefit of doubt, I took him to the pediatrician who confirmed it to be some sort of viral infection. Whole Kerala seems to be in the grip of chikunguniya or ‘Tomato fever’. Attendance in the class is very low. Many teachers too are on leave and when they return quite a few have red tomato like sores on face or elsewhere on the body.
Chikunguniya epidemic had broken out in Kerala in 2006 in the otherwise reputed state for health care. It is caused due to alpha virus and the vector is aedes mosquito. The symptoms include headache, body pain, joint pain and rashes. There can be sores resembling a tomato from which some liquid oozes out (hence the name ‘tomato fever’). Fever can remain for two to three days and then end abruptly. If you have any of the symptoms mentioned above you better to consult your doctor and get treatment immediately.
Also you should have proper rest for two days and not go to school. Please see that you avoid mosquitoes to prevent passing the viruses to them and making them a vector! Ha ha! But I am serious about it.
Take care dear children and keep dreaming…..keep aspiring!
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