{"id":349407,"date":"2025-11-06T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=349407"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:05:26","slug":"scrub-typhus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scrub-typhus\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrub Typhus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Gulf-based Keralite was recently diagnosed with scrub typhus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>About Scrub Typhus<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/imgsize-23456%2Cmsid-78692529%2Cwidth-600%2Cresizemode-4\/78692529.jpg?resize=338%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"scrub typhus \" width=\"338\" height=\"265\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TOI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Scrub Typhus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, also known as <\/span><b>bush typhus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is a disease caused by the bacterium <\/span><b><i>Orientia tsutsugamushi<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Transmitted by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0It is transmitted by the<\/span><b> mite Leptotrombidium deliense.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It spreads through the <\/span><b>bite of infected chiggers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which are the larval stage of mites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Chiggers (Mite Larvae)<\/strong> become infected after feeding on the skin of <\/span><b>infected rats or mice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are <\/span><b>tiny, almost invisible<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and are usually <\/span><b>red, yellow, or orange<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in colour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Geographical Distribution: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The disease is commonly found in <\/span><b>rural Southeast Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Indonesia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>China<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><b>northern Australia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Who are at risk:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>People of all ages and genders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can get scrub typhus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About <\/span><b>1 million cases occur worldwide each year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The risk is higher in <\/span><b>rural, forested, and overgrown areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with <\/span><b>bushes, weeds, leaf litter, and damp conditions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Chiggers are more active<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in <\/span><b>late spring and summer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Symptoms:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bite is <\/span><b>usually painless<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but causes <\/span><b>itching and redness<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> later. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Symptoms appear <\/span><b>6\u201310 days after infection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and may include <\/span><b>Fever and chills, Rash and headache<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Treatment:<\/b> <b>Antibiotics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are the main treatment and should begin early.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Prevention: T<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here is <\/span><b>no vaccine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for scrub typhus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A Gulf-based Keralite was recently diagnosed with scrub typhus.\u00a0 About Scrub Typhus Scrub Typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. Transmitted by: \u00a0It is transmitted by the mite Leptotrombidium deliense. It spreads through the bite of infected chiggers, which are the larval stage of mites. Chiggers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scrub-typhus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrub Typhus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-349407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349407","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}