Global & Disaster Medicine

An Invasive New Tick Comes to the USA

August 9th, 2018

NYT

“…..In East Asia, long-horned ticks do carry pathogens related to Lyme and others found in North America. But the biggest threat is a phlebovirus that causes S.F.T.S., for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome…..The syndrome has an overall fatality rate of about 15 percent….But S.F.T.S. is more lethal to people aged 60 or older, killing half of them..…..”

Isolation of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) from case-patients, South Korea, 2013. A, B) Indirect immunofluorescent features of Vero E6 cells primed with SFTSV N protein monoclonal antibody and reacted with fluoresce in isothiocyanateconjugated anti-mouse IgG. B) Transmission electron microscopy image of Vero E6 cells infected with SFTSV. Scale bar indicates 500 nm.

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