<p>At a time when doctors are yet to get over the scare of dengue in Kolkata and surrounding districts, the first case of scrub typhus was identified in the city on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>With the disease’s higher rate of fatality than dengue or malaria, doctors are worried that tests are not being conducted properly. A vector-borne disease, scrub typhus is caused by small lice-like insects, which has similar symptoms like dengue, including high fever and body ache.<br /><br />Added to these are blisters caused by the mite’s bite, doctors said. The disease came to the notice of the administration after a six-year-old boy from Park Circus in south-eastern Kolkata and a seven-year-old girl from eastern Kolkata came down with high fever, but both tested negative for dengue.</p>
<p>At a time when doctors are yet to get over the scare of dengue in Kolkata and surrounding districts, the first case of scrub typhus was identified in the city on Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>With the disease’s higher rate of fatality than dengue or malaria, doctors are worried that tests are not being conducted properly. A vector-borne disease, scrub typhus is caused by small lice-like insects, which has similar symptoms like dengue, including high fever and body ache.<br /><br />Added to these are blisters caused by the mite’s bite, doctors said. The disease came to the notice of the administration after a six-year-old boy from Park Circus in south-eastern Kolkata and a seven-year-old girl from eastern Kolkata came down with high fever, but both tested negative for dengue.</p>
