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From Wikipedia:

Dabie bandavirus, also called SFTS virus, is a tick-borne virus in the genus Bandavirus in the family Phenuiviridae, order Bunyavirales.[2] The clinical condition it caused is known as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS).[2] SFTS is an emerging infectious disease that was first described in northeast and central China 2009 and now has also been discovered in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan in 2015. SFTS has a fatality rate of 12% and as high as over 30% in some areas. The major clinical symptoms of SFTS are fever, vomiting, diarrhea, multiple organ failure, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), leukopenia (low white blood cell count) and elevated liver enzyme levels. Another outbreak occurred in East China in the early half of 2020.

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I fucking hate ticks. And scorpions.

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Luckily, scorpions rarely attack you from a tree in Central Europe.

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That ticks attack you from trees is actually wrong.

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can you enlighten us on the probable vectors of tick to human contact?

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TIL: ⬆️

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Give it some time.

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No problem, I always wanted to have a reason to never leave the house anymore anyway.

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Ticks and mosquitos can go extinct, I wouldn’t care in the slightest.

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They’re coarse and irritating.

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We did it! Great work to all involved.

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let’s hope it doesn’t spread like a wildfire.

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