Fiji's Health Ministry has declared a dengue fever outbreak in the Western Division, which has reported the highest number of ...

Fiji's Health Ministry has declared a dengue fever outbreak in the Western Division, where the highest number of cases have ...

THE Rizal Medical Center launched on Wednesday, March 12, its Dengue Fast Lane, an initiative to make diagnosis and treatment ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...