Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Mystery fever scrub typhus surfaces in Hyderabad
Bushra Baseerat, TNN | Sep 13, 2012, 07.49AM IST
HYDERABAD: Here's another reason to conserve the environment. A mystery fever has surfaced in the city which has symptoms somewhat similar to malaria or dengue, but is more complicated than both. An estimated 100 cases of this fever have been reported in the last one month. Doctors, initially unsure of the diagnosis, treated patients with regular antibiotics but have now realised that the cases are of Scrub Typhus, a mite-borne fever, commonly reported in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Maharashtra. This is the first time the fever is being reported in such large numbers in Andhra Pradesh and doctors attribute it to deforestation.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...urfaces-in-Hyderabad/articleshow/16377014.cms
Bushra Baseerat, TNN | Sep 13, 2012, 07.49AM IST
HYDERABAD: Here's another reason to conserve the environment. A mystery fever has surfaced in the city which has symptoms somewhat similar to malaria or dengue, but is more complicated than both. An estimated 100 cases of this fever have been reported in the last one month. Doctors, initially unsure of the diagnosis, treated patients with regular antibiotics but have now realised that the cases are of Scrub Typhus, a mite-borne fever, commonly reported in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Maharashtra. This is the first time the fever is being reported in such large numbers in Andhra Pradesh and doctors attribute it to deforestation.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...urfaces-in-Hyderabad/articleshow/16377014.cms