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Got a line of itchy, red bites? This tiny pest could be the culprit.

The scrub typhus disease is also known as chellu pani locally. The disease is transmitted by chigger mites, the larval stage, from animals to humans.

Kerala reported its first scrub typhus death on June 9, when a 15-year-old girl died from the disease caused by a mite-borne bacterium.

Scrub typhus is an infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, that is a mite-borne bacterium.