India is home to diseases that many people may never have heard of until someone close to them is diagnosed. Some are spread ...
Salyan, Aug. 25 -- Two people have died within a week in Darma Rural Municipality of Salyan after testing positive for scrub ...
A recent comprehensive analysis of tropical infections reveals that acute kidney injury (AKI) complicates one in four scrub ...
Andhra Pradesh is witnessing a sudden surge in scrub typhus cases, with the state recording 174 confirmed cases, with Visakhapatnam district alone accounting for over 130 infections, according to ...
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. Transmitted by larval trombiculid mites (‘chiggers’), the disease is endemic throughout ...
According to Dr Rahul Rao, Medical Superintendent of IGMC, nine blood samples were tested on Monday, of which two were found positive for scrub typhus while the remaining seven tested negative.