Kathmandu, September 15

Unusual symptoms have been seen in patients diagnosed with scrub typhus in the country.

People suffering from diarrhoea have also been diagnosed with scrub typhus.

According to Dr Sher Bahadur Pun, coordinator of clinical research unit at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, the hospital diagnosed diarrhoea patients with scrub typhus for the first time.  “There are at least five patients at the hospital, who visited the hospital complaining of diarrhoea but were later diagnosed with scrub typhus,” said Dr Pun. Not only diarrhoea, but even people with hearing problems and meningitis have also been diagnosed with scrub typhus.

Usually high fever and chills, headache, red lesion or sore on the skin at the site of the bite, cough and rashes are symptoms of scrub typhus. “I never saw people with diarrhoea, hearing problems and meningitis being diagnosed with scrub typhus before this,” Dr Pun shared.