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What Is Scrub typhus?

News: Researchers from PGIMER Chandigarh and Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, discovered that an antibiotic combination works well for treating severe scrub typhus.

• A serious concern to public health in South and Southeast Asia is scrub typhus, a potentially fatal sickness brought on by the Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria.
• It is transmitted to individuals through chigger bites that are infected (larval mites).
• Scrub typhus symptoms typically include fever, headache, body aches, and occasionally a rash.
• Doxycycline, an antibiotic, should be used to treat scrub typhus. Anybody of any age can use doxycycline.
• For this illness, there is no vaccination at this time.
• A category of bacterial illnesses known as typhus fevers include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.
• Rickettsia prowazeki is the cause of epidemic typhus, which is transmitted by body lice.
• Chiggers disseminate scrub typhus, which is brought on by the Orientia tsutsugamushi bacterium.
• Rickettsia typhi, which is transmitted by fleas, is what causes murine typhus.