Satranjipura resident Afsan Majid Sheikh (35) has become the first case of death from scrub typhus in the Nagpur division comprising six districts under the deputy director of health services this year.
Meanwhile, four fresh cases of the zoonotic disease, which spreads with the onset of the monsoon, have been reported from posh localities by private hospitals in the city in August while 16 tested positive for the mite-borne illness in Wardha district last week. The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has recorded 23 scrub ..
