A new infectious disease the tick-borne virus caused bt tick bite has killed seven people and infected 60 other people in China, official media in Beijing on Wednesday told of the possibility of its human-to-human transmission Be warned. More than 37 people contracted with SFTS virus in the first half of the year in east China’s Jiangsu province.
Later, 23 people were found infected in Anhui province in eastern China, state-run Global Times cited media reports.
A woman from Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu, who was suffering from the tick-borne virus, began symptoms such as fever, cough. Doctors noticed a drop of leukocyte, blood platelets inside her body. She was discharged from the hospital after a month of treatment.
The report says that at least seven people have died in Anhui and eastern China’s Zhejiang province due to the virus.
SFTS virus is not a new virus. China isolated the pathogen of the virus in 2011, and it belongs to the genus Bivirus.
Virologists believe that this infection must have passed through tickling humans and that the virus can spread among humans.
Sheng Jiefang, a doctor at the first affiliated hospital under Zheng University, said that the possibility of human-to-human transmission cannot be excluded; Patients can pass the virus on to others through blood or mucus. Doctors warned that tick bites are the major transmission route, so long as people remain vigilant, there is no need to panic over infection with such viruses, it said.
News Source: IndiaToday
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