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So far, samples of 1,179 patients have been tested for scrub typhus at IGMC, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh; if these, reports of 368 patients have come positive.
Health department officials on Sunday confirmed two more deaths due to scrub typhus in two different districts, taking the death toll in Odisha to eight
The deaths include six women, a girl and two men. On Monday, a 50-year-old woman from Kotkhai in Shimla district succumbed to the disease, said senior medical superintendent Dr Rahul Rao