A study of more than 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India, suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural ...

A study in Tamil Nadu, India, finds that scrub typhus is a common yet under-recognized cause of fever, affecting up to 10% of ...

Despite cases being very common and treatable, scrub typhus is often overlooked as a possible cause when patients present ...

Rural communities are at high risk of potentially life-threatening scrub typhus infections, according to a study by ...

For the study, blood samples of people who reported fever were collected every six to eight weeks from August 2020 to July ...

Among those who were infected, 8 per cent to 15 per cent developed fever which often required hospital care, researchers said ...

Hospital studies suggest that scrub typhus is a leading cause of severe undifferentiated fever in regions across Asia where the disease is endemic, but the population-based incidence of infection ...

Flea-borne typhus is not usually deadly in the United States — the mortality rate is less than 2% — but Dr. Gregory Anstead says it’s a disease that can cause a lot of problems.

Rural populations are at high risk of contracting scrub typhus, a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection, according ...

A study of over 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural populations annually and is a leading yet under-recognised cause of ...