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Trend of scrub typhus cases and deaths in Nepal, 2015–2017
| Year | No. of districts | No. of cases (%) |
No. of deaths (%) | Case fatality rate, % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | 141 (11.4) | 8 (32.0) | 5.7 |
| 2016 | 47 | 831 (67.1) | 14 (56.0) | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 30 | 267 (21.5) | 3 (12.0) | 1.1 |
| Cumulative, 2015–2017 | 52 | 1239 (100) | 25 (100) | 2.0 |
