Chitwan, Sept 1: Out of the patients who came for treatment in various hospitals of the district since last July, 78 persons have been diagnosed with scrub typhus infection.     

According to the district public health office, 78 out of 306 people who underwent lab tests were found with infection.     

Public health officer Bimal Patel said 33 of the total infected are from Chitwan while 45 are from outside the district.     

In the last fiscal year, 248 people tested positive for scrub typhus while conducting a sample test among 762 people. “Scrobtyphoid infection is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected worm, it is said.     

Fever, redness in the eyes, cough, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, breathing complications, severe headache, joint and muscle pain, malaise, and sometimes black spots in the bite site are its common symptoms. (RSS)