Scrub Typhus -- India
There is a need for greater awareness of the potentially fatal illness, which is misconceived as an exotic disease only affecting people in rural areas and whose symptoms can be mistaken for dengue, malaria, or typhoid. The disease is prevalent in both rural and urban India. In the coming months, an illness presenting symptoms of dengue, typhoid, severe pneumonia, or multi-organ dysfunction, may, in fact, be scrub typhus - be it in Goa or Gorakhpur, Darjeeeling or Delhi, Bikaner or
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