Scrub Typhus — Thailand
The Public Health Ministry has warned tourists returning from a trip to a forest during the winter season to seek medical attention if they come down with a fever and headache, as they could have caught scrub typhus or malaria.
Scrub typhus is spread to people through bites by infected chiggers (larval mites) and the latter [malaria] through bites by female mosquitoes of the genus _Anopheles_, said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, spokesman and deputy permanent secretary for the Public Health
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