Since the doctor insisted this was a disease of the ‘deep jungle’, I investigated further. ‘Scrub’ is a misnomer as the disease appears to occur in sandy, semi-arid, mountain deserts, rice fields, and even urban areas. In fact, junglies are not the only ones in danger of contracting the disease. A friend who lives on the beach, not far from us, contracted scrub typhus in her home of twenty-odd years.
