PRO/AH/EDR> Acute encephalitis syndrome – India (03): (UP) comment

Encephalitis — India
In ProMED-mail Archive Number: 20151008.3698951, the statement: “The Gorakhpur encephalitis (AES) [acute encephalitis syndrome] has been [resolved]. It is scrub typhus, a mite-borne bacterial disease caused by _Orientia tstsugamushi_” is unscientific and misleading.
The report says: “An ICMR [Indian Council of Medical Research] sponsored investigation during August-September 2014 identified the etiology. Out of 249 acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) cases investigated, 152 (61 percent) of