{"id":52994,"date":"2026-08-14T08:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52994"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:36:36","slug":"chitwan-records-two-dengue-and-six-scrub-typhus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/chitwan-records-two-dengue-and-six-scrub-typhus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitwan records two dengue and six scrub typhus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Chitwan, Aug. 14: Two new cases of dengue and six of scrub typhus were reported in Chitwan district in the month of Sawan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Public Health Office, a case of dengue was confirmed in Kalika Municipality and next one in Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, six cases of scrub typhus were confirmed including five in Bharatpur Metropolitan City and one in Ratnanagar Municipality, the Office shared.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, two people from other districts coming to Chitwan for treatment were also infected with dengue and 28 of scrub typhus.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the district recorded four cases of dengue and 34 of scrub typhus in total in a month of Sawan.<\/p>\n<p>The Vector Control Inspector of Office, Ram KC, said that no case death case was reported during the period but the cases have surged during the rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Office has launched a &#8216;search and destroy&#8217; initiative against larva in coordination with the local levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chitwan, Aug. 14: Two new cases of dengue and six of scrub typhus were reported in Chitwan district in the month of Sawan. According to Public Health Office, a case of dengue was confirmed in Kalika Municipality and next one in Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality in the district. Likewise, six cases of scrub typhus were confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52995,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions\/52995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}