49 scrub typhus patients recorded in a month

Kathmandu - Baitadi district has witnessed a rise in the number of patients with dengue and scrub typhus infections. As many as 49 cases of typhus were recorded in Baitadi since early August onwards, shared public health inspector of the district health office, Bhuwan Prasad Joshi. Dasharathchand municipality alone has recorded a total of 36 scrub typhus infected patents including 25 women and 11 men.

Likewise, four cases (three women and one man) were diagnosed with the infection in Patan municipality, six (four women and two men) in Dogadakedar rural municipality, one woman in Melauli municipality, one man in Pancheswor rural municipality and one women in Sigas rural municipality, Joshi informed. He further shared that the scrub typhus infection was diagnosed in rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) among those turning up at Baitadi district hospital and other health facilities for treatment.