In the past three months, patients infected with scrub typhus have increased dramatically, they are experiencing high fever, joint pain, headache and other problems.
Scrub typhus patients have increased in hospitals in Palpa. According to the Health Office Palpa, 434 people have been infected this year while there were 245 people during the same period last year.
The number of scrub typhus patients is increasing in United Mission Hospital, Lumbini Medical College Prabhas and Rampur Hospital Palpa in the district. The number of patients infected with scrub typhus has increased dramatically in the last three months. Madhusudan Bhattarai, information officer of the health office, said that most of the patients who came to the hospital with high fever, joint pain, headache and other problems were confirmed to have scrub typhus.
This year, a 12-year-old girl from Rainadevi Chhahara Rural Municipality-1 in Palpa died due to scrub typhus. Symptoms of scrub typhus develop in humans within 6 days to 3 weeks after being bitten by an infected insect. In this infection, along with high fever, the skin where bitten is blackened. Complications of scrub typhus include pneumonia, meningoencephalitis and myocarditis.
Scrub typhus has also been observed in patients from Palpa, Gulmi, Syangja and Arghakhanchi in district hospitals. Along with scrub typhus, dengue has been confirmed in 394 people in the district. During the same period last year, 462 people were infected with dengue.
