With lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pentagon is focused on the next one—from the hypothetical “Pathogen X.” ...

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

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

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

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

The scrub typhus infection is spread by the bite of an infected larval mite (chigger). Chiggers are found on grass, plant litter and bare soil across rural areas of Asia, and usually feed on small ...

Researchers call for communities to be informed of possible dangers of scrub typhus infection, which can be deadly if left ...

For the study, blood samples of people who reported fever were collected every six to eight weeks from August 2020 to July 2022.

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due ...

Affecting around a tenth of rural populations in India every year, 'scrub typhus' infection, spread by the bite of an ...

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