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Article: Scrub typhus reemergence in the Maldives.(Dispatches)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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In summer 2002, an outbreak of febrile illness began in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Through April 2003, officials recorded 168 cases with 10 deaths. The Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok confirmed Orientia tsutsugamushi and conducted a joint investigation with the Ministry of Health, Maldives. These cases of scrub typhus were the first in the Maldives since World War II.
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In the summer of 2002, an outbreak of febrile illness began in the Republic of Maldives, a nation of 26 coral atolls straddling the equator in the Indian Ocean. The Ministry of Health, Republic of Maldives, intensified surveillance efforts, ...