Scrub Typhus -- Nepal
As many as 265 people have been found infected with scrub typhus in Chitwan in the last 3 months. According to the District Public Health Office, Chitwan, the number of people infected with the infectious mite-borne disease that is caused by _Orientia tsutsugamushi_ has been on the rise in the district.
Fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, muscular rash and body pain are among the symptoms of scrub typhus.
_Orientia tsutsugamushi_ is transmitted by a mite that feeds on forest and rural
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