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In presumption of the State reporting 9 suspected deaths from Scrub Typhus illness successful 2025, the authorities has directed each Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) successful Andhra Pradesh to facilitate punctual investigating and confirmation, said Health and Family Welfare Commissioner G. Veerapandian.
Addressing the media successful Mangalagiri connected Monday, the Commissioner said that the authorities was besides successful interaction with experts, from some authorities and backstage sectors successful the State, and World Health Organisation to behaviour a probe and find retired the origin of deaths successful the 9 cases, wherever the individuals had tested affirmative for Scrub Typhus and whether oregon not they died solely due to the fact that of it.
There were nary deaths reported successful radical with the illness past year, and truthful the authorities has decided to instrumentality up the research, the Commissioner added.
Experts from the genome labs successful Siddhartha Medical College, Government General Hospital-Guntur, AIIMS-Mangalagiri, CMC-Vellore and a backstage laboratory successful Bengaluru volition assistance the authorities successful conducting probe and genome sequencing to find retired if Scrub Typhus caused the deaths, said Mr. Veerapandian. He added that humor samples were sent to these centres and it would instrumentality astatine slightest 3 months for the last reports to come.
The authorities has besides formed Rapid Response Teams, comprising 3 specialists, successful each territory to behaviour epidemiological probe of the cases. He added that the section was besides mapping each hotspots to heighten surveillance.
While it is simply a communal post-monsoon disease, the Commissioner has advised radical to spot a doc instantly if they make a fever. “In galore cases wherever deaths were reported, radical came to the infirmary successful the past hour. It is champion to sojourn a infirmary astatine the earliest,” helium said, adding that each wellness workers were being asked to instrumentality up surveillance of radical falling successful high-risk category.
At present, the State has reported 1,566 cases till date, the Commissioner said. In 2025, Karnataka reported 1,870 cases, Tamil Nadu 7,308 and Telangana 309.
Guntur GGH Superintendent Yesaswi Ramana, who was besides contiguous successful the meeting, said Guntur reported 26 cases successful the past 38 days, and 3 of them were successful the ICU.
Director of Public Health K. Padmavathi, Director of Medical Education Raghunathan and others were contiguous successful the property meet.
