admin A new infectious disease caused by a tick-borne virus has killed seven people and infected 60 others in China, warning about the possibility of its human-to-human transmission, official media reported on Wednesday.
37+ people in East China’s Jiangsu Province contracted with the SFTS Virus in the first half of the year. Later, 23 people were found to have been infected in East China’s Anhui province, state-run Global according to the Times media reports.
A woman from Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, who suffered from the virus disclosed onset of symptoms such as fever, coughing. Doctors found a decline of leukocyte, blood platelet inside of her body. After a month of treatment, she was discharged from the hospital.
Seven people have died in Anhui and East China’s Zhejiang province due to the virus, said the report.
SFTS Virus is not a new virus. China has separated pathogen of the virus in 2011, and it belongs to the Bunyavirus category.
Virologists believe that the infection may have been passed on to humans by ticks and that the virus can be transmitted between humans, it informed.
A doctor from the first affiliated hospital under Zhejiang University, Sheng Jifang, stated that the possibility of human-to-human transmission could not be excluded; patients can pass the virus to others via blood or mucous. Doctors advised that tick bite is the main transmission way, as long as people remain cautious, there’s no need to over panic over such virus contagion, it suggested.
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