The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency has issued a health advisory following a surge in scrub typhus cases in ...

The number of patients suffering from scrub typhus, a disease caused by a bacterial pathogen called "Orientia tsutsugamushi," has increased eightfold over the past three weeks, pr ...

Scrub typhus, a disease caused by the bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi, is spread through the bite of infected chiggers (larval mites). It is most common in areas with dense vegetation, particularly in ...

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi and is transmitted to humans through bites from infected mites (chiggers). Common symptoms include fever, chills, headache ...

At around 5:40 a.m. today (8th), 13 pallets for cargo transport fell on the road from a 2.5-ton truck driving near the ...

The germ infects people when they are bitten (usually painlessly) by an infected larval mite called Leptotrombidium deliense. The mite is very small (0.2 to 0.4mm) and can only be seen through a ...