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Before the use of antibiotics, the mortality rate for scrub typhus varied from 1–60%, depending on the geographic area and the rickettsial strain. Recovery also took a long time. With modern treatment methods, however, deaths are rare and the recovery period is short. Source: The Gale Group. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
