Scrub Typhus -- Nepal
Two patients each from Chitwan and Syangja districts died of [scrub typhus] earlier. As many as 300 cases of scrub typhus have been recorded in 32 districts so far this year [2017], according to Dr Bhim Acharya, Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Teku.
Of the 300 scrub typhus cases, 139 were from Chitwan alone. Last year [2016], 509 people had tested positive for the disease in the district, and 4 had died.
Scrub typhus, also known as tsutsugamushi disease, is an infectious
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