Scrub Typhus -- India
City based doctors and virologists suspect that the nature of larval mites, a kind of insect [that] causes diseases like scrub typhus, might have changed, as a result of which they are now found within the city. Earlier, the insects were only found in forest areas.
Two persons from Ultadanga's Basanti Colony area reportedly died of scrub typhus in November [2018], triggering panic among other residents of the area. The disease is spread among people through the bites of infected chiggers
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6166100&promed&0
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