More than 50 people living in a tribal village in Birbhum district have been admitted to the Rampurhat hospital with diarrhoea-like symptoms. Forty-nine of them have been found to be suffering from scrub typhus.
The Odisha Government has asked district health authorities to increase the surveillance for seasonal upsurge of Scrub Typhus and Leptospirosis…
As many as 732 persons tested positive for scrub typhus while five deaths due to disease have been reported in…
"Scrub typhus spread to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites). The most common symptoms of scrub typhus include fever, headache, body aches, and sometimes rashes."
She said in a tweet in Hindi: "Firozabad, Mathura, Agra and other places in UP, children and adults have died due to fever which is heart-wrenching. UP government should step in immediately to control the disease and provide better health facilities."
The health department has sounded an alert after the lab reports confirmed that 29 patients, aged between two to 45 years, had tested positive on Sunday.
Patients suffering from scrub typhus are vulnerable to get encephalitis and the simultaneous attack of these two diseases may be fatal for them.
Out of all the epidemic prone diseases, scrub typhus in Himachal continues to be the disease that is claiming the…
With the conducive weather conditions the number of cases of the rickettsial disease, scrub typhus has started pouring at Indira Gandhi Medical College…
