CHITWAN: As many as 104 persons tested positive for scrub typhus in and around Chitwan district in past four months.

The Chitwan Medical College said it found the infection in 104 persons from mid-April this year till date.

The Chitwan District Public Health Office, however, said only 91 scrub typhus patients were found across Nepal in the same period. Among them, three had died.

Of 91 verified patients, 43 were from the district itself, according to the DPHO Chief, Madhu Sudan Koirala.

Meanwhile, health institutions in the district are reeling under the shortage of test kits to examine the disease.

Nepali officially confirmed the presence of the disease in the country last year. However, the disease is not human-to-human transmittable.

Scrub typhus is an infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular bacterium, and is transmitted to humans from the biting of fleas, mites and lice.

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