A new type of virus, which is likely to be passed to be infected after
bite by ticks, is emerging in China, with more than 60 people infected
and killed at least seven. According to media reports, more than
37 people in East China's Jiangsu Province have contracted with the
virus - SFTS Virus in the first half of the year; and later 23 people
was found infected in East China's Anhui Province. Wang, a woman
in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu who suffered from the virus showed onset
of symptoms such like fever, coughing and doctors found decline of
leukocyte, blood platelet inside of her body. After a month of
treatment, Wang was discharged from hospital. But the virus has reported
at least seven killed in Anhui and East China's Zhejiang Province. SFTS
Virus is not a new virus. China has isolated pathogene of the virus in
2011, and it belongs to Bunya virus category. Virologists believed it
maybe passed to human being by ticks, and that the virus can be
transmitted between humans. Sheng Jifang, a doctor from the
first affiliated hospital under Zhejiang University said that the
possibility of human to human transmission could not be excluded;
patients can pass the virus to other via blood or mucous. Doctors
warned that tick bites is the major transmission route, as long as
people remain cautious, there's no need to over panic over such virus
contagion.
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