Japanese Encephalitis, Scrub Typhus — India
This source of the disease has been ignored because of the high prevalence of the Japanese encephalitis virus.
The bacterium that causes the mite-borne disease scrub typhus could be responsible for a large number of cases of the often fatal acute encephalitis syndrome or AES in Assam, according to a new study from the north east Regional Medical Research Centre in Dibrugarh, a branch of the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Scrub typhus is a disease characterised by fever, headache,
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