Scrub Typhus -- Nepal
A 35-year-old woman of Bharatpur Sub-Metropolitan City-22 in Chitwan district died of scrub typhus during treatment at the Narayani Community Hospital in Chitwan district during the last week of the Nepali month Kartik. [Kartik is the 7th month in Nepalese calendar, corresponding to 18 Oct-16 Nov.] With this, the death toll due to this bacterial disease in Kartik has reached 4.
Chitwan district alone has witnessed 401 cases of scrub typhus in the last 7 months. A total of 15 persons have
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