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Scrub Typhus
Infectious Diseases · Infectious & Parasitic
Severe
Severity
Common in endemic regions — significant seasonal burden in rural India during and after monsoon
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Infectious Diseases
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by infection with Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria
- 2transmitted through the bite of infected larval mites
- 3commonly called chiggers
- 4which live in areas of dense scrub vegetation
- 5grasslands
- 6and forest edges. Agricultural workers
- 7and those spending time in rural vegetation-dense areas during monsoon season
- 8face the highest risk.
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