Posted by Anup Baral Septembet 21, 2016 :As many 17 new cases of scrub typhus infection have been reported in Chitwan in a week, pushing the number of patients in the district to 162 in the last four months. According to the District Public Health Office, Chitwan, a total of 17 people were found to have infected with the bacterial disease in the examination of 70 patients.