Scrub typhus, a systemic, life-threatening disease with an enormous incidence in Asia and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, remains remarkably neglected. Discovery of this vectorborne ...

Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by bacteria called Orientia tsutsugamushi. You can get it if an infected chigger – larvae that grow into mites – bites you. Chiggers often ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A Gulf Keralite’s impulsive decision to return home to treat a persistent fever turned out to be life-saving after he was diagnosed with scrub typhus — a potentially fatal ...

Scrub Typhus in Odisha: The growing incidences of Scrub Typhus have become a cause of concern in Odisha. According to local media reports, with seven more cases, the total case tally of Scrub Typhus ...

New Delhi — India's health authorities have solved the mystery of an illness that has infected thousands and left more than 100 people dead in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The fever that ...

SAMBALPUR: Amid growing concern, districts in western Odisha, including Sambalpur, are experiencing a sudden rise in scrub typhus cases, particularly following a spike in Bargarh. The disease, ...

Hospital studies suggest that scrub typhus is a leading cause of severe undifferentiated fever in regions across Asia where the disease is endemic, but the population-based incidence of infection and ...

Vidyavati Bagh, the local auxiliary nurse midwife, or ANM, in charge of 22 villages in Odisha’s Bissamcuttack block, patiently listened to a description of scrub typhus. “No no, we don’t have this ...

A team of medical researchers from Kerala has identified a rare case of scrub typhus in a native of Thiruvananthapuram who recently returned from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, a country which is ...