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Update (September 7): CBS News reports that Indian health officials have identified both scrub typhus and dengue as the cause of these illnesses. More than 100 people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have died in the last two weeks, and thousands have fallen ill.
In addition to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and an uptick of malaria cases across the country, an unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India in the last week; most were children. All of the patients tested negative for COVID-19, and India Today reports it is likely that scrub typhus is to blame, though other possibilities, such as dengue, have not been ruled out.
Uttar Pradesh (UP) is one of the most densely-populated areas of India, with more than 200 million residents inside an area roughly the size of Michigan. The area has recently ...
