Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Severe fever w/ thrombocytopenia synd – Japan
PRO/AH/EDR> Severe fever w/ thrombocytopenia synd – Japan
Fever -- JapanA Japanese woman [died last year, 2016] from a tick-borne virus after being bitten by a stray cat in what is possibly the world's 1st animal-to-human transmission of the disease.The woman in her 50s died some 10 days after being bitten by the cat last year after she took the animal to a veterinary hospital.Authorities have since confirmed that she developed SFTS, a disease transmitted by bites from a certain group of virus-carrying ticks.Human-to-human infections of the tick virus Read more [...]
