Word: tsutsugamushi
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...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...
...nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical...
...tick-tight clothing smeared with insect repellent. The only treatment is good nursing care which, in one epidemic, cut deaths to 2%. In the same issue of the Bulletin, Captain Joseph Bruce Logue reported on an epidemic of 230 cases with 22 deaths. In his opinion, none of these tsutsugamushi patients were fit to stay in the combat zone, even after several weeks of light duty. He suspects that all have permanent heart damage...
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