Jaipur: With the onset of monsoon in Rajasthan, the state health department issued an alert Monday over the potential rise in ...

Patients with high fever and severe body aches, headache, abdominal pain, and joint and muscle pain are common in the ...

Scrub typhus is a type of bacterial infection. You can get it when a small, infected mite called a chigger bites you. Learn more about signs to watch for and how you can avoid them.

Causes of Scrub Typhus. The main cause of scrub typhus is the bacterium Orientuai tsutsugamushi. It is majorly spread in human beings by the bites of infected mites known as chiggers. ...

A potentially deadly disease, scrub typhus, spread by chiggers has been found in the United States for the first time, thus far only in North Carolina.

Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by a bacteria named Orientia tsutsugamushi.. It spreads through the bite of infected chiggers (larval mites) that feed on the skin of ...

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due to the infection, if left untreated, can cause death.

Dr Gulati explains, "Scrub typhus, also known as Bush Typhus, is caused by the Orientia tsutsugamushi bacterium. This disease is highly prevalent in Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Northern Australia.

If scrub typhus is not treated, it can last for 14 to 21 days and result in death (Picture Credit: IANS) In Meerut, a 12-year-old boy, Ahmed, a resident of Tikri village died of Scrub Typhus.Ahmed ...

Scrub typhus — a life-threatening infection caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria — is a major public health threat in South and Southeast Asia. As per estimates, nearly one million cases ...

A study of over 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural populations annually and is a leading yet under-recognised cause of ...

Scrub Typhus, a deadly infection has been causing unexpected deaths in Shimla and now also in Odisha. A total of 10 people from Shimla and 5 from Odisha have succumbed to the disease.