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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has instructed the officials to intensify the consciousness run connected Scrub Typhus and guarantee timely aesculapian attraction to forestall deaths owed to the disease.
The Chief Minister reviewed the concern astatine the Secretariat connected Tuesday with Health Department Principal Secretary Saurabh Gaur, pursuing reports of Scrub Typhus cases successful the State.
Referring to the caller decease of Chandaka Rajeshwari from Vizianagaram territory owed to the infection, Mr. Naidu directed the officials to instrumentality each preventive measures truthful that specified incidents bash not recur.
He emphasised the request to amended radical astir the unwellness caused by bites of chigger mites and the ways to forestall complications.
Mr. Gaur briefed the Chief Minister connected Rajeshwari’s case, explaining that she was initially treated for typhoid and aboriginal tested affirmative for Scrub Typhus done a accelerated diagnostic test.
She passed distant portion undergoing attraction astatine the Quasi Hospital successful Vizianagaram. The Principal Secretary informed that cases person besides been reported successful Chittoor and Kakinada districts.
Officials clarified that Scrub Typhus is not a contagious disease, arsenic it is caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, transmitted done the wound of infected chigger mites.
High fever, chills, terrible headache, musculus pain, and improvement of ulcers astatine the wound tract are among the communal symptoms. If treated connected time, patients tin retrieve fully, they said.
Mr. Naidu asked the Health Department to intensify consciousness campaigns, peculiarly successful agrarian areas, support sanitation successful the surroundings, promote aboriginal testing, and guarantee that patients person attraction earlier their information becomes critical.
“No 1 should suffer their beingness owed to an insect bite. Awareness is the champion protection,” helium said.
