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Scrub Typhus

January 27, 2021
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In News: An outbreak of Scrub Typhus (also known as Bush Typhus), a bacterial disease, has caused 5 deaths and 600 infections in Nagaland’s Noklak district bordering Myanmar.

About Scrub Typhus 

  • Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by a bacteria called Orientia tsutsugamushi. Scrub typhus is spread to people through bites of infected larval mites.
  • The mites are found in grasslands, forests, bush areas, wood piles, gardens, and beaches.
  • Scrub Typhus can also be transmitted through unscreened blood transfusions and unhygienic needles. It does not spread from person to person.
  • The most common symptoms of scrub typhus include fever, headache, body aches, and sometimes rash.

Key Points

  • It is a disease caused by a bacteria called Orientia tsutsugamushi.
  • Symptoms of scrub typhus usually begin within 10 days of being bitten. Signs and symptoms may include:
    • Fever and chills
    • Headache
    • Body aches and muscle pain
    • A dark, scab-like region at the site of the chigger bite
    • Mental changes, ranging from confusion to coma
    • Enlarged lymph nodes
    • Rash
  • Scrub typhus should be treated with the antibiotic and most effective if given soon after symptoms begin.
  • Occurrence: Rural areas of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, China, Japan, India, and northern Australia.
  • No vaccine is available to prevent scrub typhus.
  • Spread: Through bites of Larval Mites of family trombiculid, also called Chiggers.

Typhus

  • Typhus is a group of bacterial infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.
    • Epidemic typhus is due to Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice.
    • Scrub typhus is due to Orientia tsutsugamushi spread by chiggers.
    • Murine typhus is due to Rickettsia typhi spread by fleas

 

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