Scrub Typhus -- Australia
Scrub typhus is a bacterial infection transmitted by mites that normally live on native animals. They most often crawl into warm and moist parts of the body, such as the armpit or groin, and their bite can leave a telltale black oval scab up to one centimeter long. Scrub typhus causes a generalized illness in affected people up to 2 weeks after they are bitten, and although easily treated with antibiotics, some people can become seriously ill, or even die, as in the case of one man in the NT
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