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21 dead in Japan from virus spread by mites
By Casey Baseel
National Feb. 27, 2014 - 07:02AM JST ( 11 )
TOKYO
Authorities in Japan are warning people about deadly poisonous mites. The cause for concern is the SFTS virus.
SFTS is an abbreviation for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, and its every bit as gruesome as its name implies. Aside from the obvious fever, symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea, and in more advanced cases lowered white blood cell and platelet counts, organ failure, and even death.
The majority of SFTS cases so far have been in China, which is also where researchers first isolated the virus in 2009. A recent outbreak has occurred in west Japan, however, with 53 people reported as having been infected so far, with 21 losing their lives to the syndromes effects.
The vector through which the contamination is spreading has been reported to be tick bites. While all of the confirmed SFTS instances have been in west Japan, the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center says the type of mite acting as carrier can be found in 23 prefectures, from Hokkaido in the north to the island of Kyushu in the south.
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21 dead in Japan from virus spread by mites (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Feb 2014
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hootinholler
(26,449 posts)1. Ticks are very different than mites
I wonder if this is a translation issue?
Demeter
(85,373 posts)2. unless the mites are on the ticks?
bananas
(27,509 posts)7. So the virus lives on mites which lives on ticks which live on animals?
And the animals live on plants which live on sunshine?
Got it!
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)3. What if the Kaiju are really microscopic? nt
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)4. well but Kaiju means
Huge monster.. if it was tiny.. you might say: Chīsana kaibutsu
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)5. Ah, hai!!!! Domo! nt
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)6. Dou itashimashite
Sukopio san! (Japanese pronunciation)
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