Japan confirms first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne SFTS virus
Japan confirms first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne SFTS virus
A doctor became infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) after attending to a patient who had been diagnosed with it.
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.
We did it! Great work to all involved.
let's hope it doesn't spread like a wildfire.
Time to stock up on toilet paper and invest in PPE manufacturing.
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