{"id":229981,"date":"2023-03-06T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=229981"},"modified":"2023-03-06T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:11:11","slug":"scrub-typhus-combination-therapy-can-save-more-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scrub-typhus-combination-therapy-can-save-more-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrub typhus: combination therapy can save more lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cScrub typhus: combination therapy can save more lives\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 6th March 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

A team of researchers from Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, and PGIMER Chandigarh found that an antibiotic combo is best for severe scrub typhus.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is <\/b>Scrub Typhus?<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Source: The Hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scrub Typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by a bacteria called <\/span>Orientia tsutsugamushi<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Transmission:<\/b> Scrub typhus is spread to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Symptoms<\/b>: The most common symptoms of scrub typhus include fever, headache, body aches, and sometimes rash.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cases of Scrub typhus:<\/b> It is a major public health threat in South and Southeast Asia. As per estimates, nearly one million cases are reported from South and Southeast Asia with 10% mortality. India is one of the hotspots with at least 25% of the disease burden.<\/span><\/p>\n

Treatment: <\/b>Scrub typhus should be treated with antibiotics. No vaccine is available to prevent scrub typhus.<\/span><\/p>\n

What did the researchers find about the treatment against Scrub Typhus?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Researchers found that a combination of antibiotic treatment (with intravenous doxycycline and azithromycin) is more effective for treating Severe Scrub Typhus than single-drug therapies.<\/span>
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Source: The post is based on the article \u201cScrub typhus: combination therapy can save more lives\u201d published in The Hindu on 6th March 2023. What is the News? A team of researchers from Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, and PGIMER Chandigarh found that an antibiotic combo is best for severe scrub typhus. What… Continue reading Scrub typhus: combination therapy can save more lives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-229981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}