Scrub Typhus — India
A growing number of children are worryingly being brought in to clinics and hospitals across the city with symptoms — high fever and full-body rash — of a mystery illness. The problem is that these symptoms are not associated with any single type of illness, foxing doctors and diagnosticians.
Paediatricians are unsure whether the illness is dengue fever, scrub typhus or just a run-of-the-mill viral infection. A few classify it as viral exanthema, which has been endemic in the city this
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