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Japan confirms first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne SFTS virus
(www.japantimes.co.jp)
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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From Wikipedia:
Dabie bandavirus, also called SFTS virus, is a tick-borne virus in the genus Bandavirus in the family Phenuiviridae, order Bunyavirales.[2] The clinical condition it caused is known as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS).[2] SFTS is an emerging infectious disease that was first described in northeast and central China 2009 and now has also been discovered in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan in 2015. SFTS has a fatality rate of 12% and as high as over 30% in some areas. The major clinical symptoms of SFTS are fever, vomiting, diarrhea, multiple organ failure, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), leukopenia (low white blood cell count) and elevated liver enzyme levels. Another outbreak occurred in East China in the early half of 2020.
I fucking hate ticks. And scorpions.
Luckily, scorpions rarely attack you from a tree in Central Europe.
That ticks attack you from trees is actually wrong.
can you enlighten us on the probable vectors of tick to human contact?
basically, ticks are fishing from the low brush and grass. they hang around with their "hooks" out waiting for something to wander by where their hair or fur snags on the tick's hooks and away they go!
They hang out in grass that's a little higher which is why putting your pants in your socks can work sometimes.
That and having a shower after having been in the forest. I lived in a Lymes area and never got anything like that.
Fun fact, when you see someone forest walking out their rectangle of white cloth or some dude waving a white flag at tall grass, it’s actually researchers collecting questing ticks (those that wait in the grass to catch onto something)
https://northernwoodlands.org/images/made/images/articles/1_forest_mgt_ticks_web_400_240_60.jpg
They usually climb up grass and wait till something passes they can hold on to.
TIL: ⬆️
Give it some time.
No problem, I always wanted to have a reason to never leave the house anymore anyway.
Ticks and mosquitos can go extinct, I wouldn't care in the slightest.
They're coarse and irritating.
We did it! Great work to all involved.
Time to stock up on toilet paper and invest in PPE manufacturing.
let's hope it doesn't spread like a wildfire.
That must have been quite the blood splatter from catheter to the doctors eye. I mean, not disputing this, just wondering if that's really the only way it could have transmitted.
Well, round 2 ig
We had so many mutations because of lack of precaution on the last one that this is like the round 50 boss
Hasn’t this already happened? This study seems to indicate that SFTS can be transmitted by bodily fluids, and the infected / corpses of the infected need to be handled with extreme caution.
https://idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40249-022-01017-4
The article states that it has already happened in China and Korea, but not previously in Japan.
Thanks. I clearly skimmed that way too quickly.
We all do it.
Bad news for necrophiliacs.