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rhabarba@feddit.de to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Japan confirms first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne SFTS virus

www.japantimes.co.jp

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Japan confirms first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne SFTS virus

www.japantimes.co.jp

rhabarba@feddit.de to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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A doctor became infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) after attending to a patient who had been diagnosed with it.
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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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            basically, ticks are fishing from the low brush and grass. they hang around with their “hooks” out waiting for something to wander by where their hair or fur snags on the tick’s hooks and away they go!

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            They hang out in grass that’s a little higher which is why putting your pants in your socks can work sometimes.

            That and having a shower after having been in the forest. I lived in a Lymes area and never got anything like that.

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            Fun fact, when you see someone forest walking out their rectangle of white cloth or some dude waving a white flag at tall grass, it’s actually researchers collecting questing ticks (those that wait in the grass to catch onto something)

            https://northernwoodlands.org/images/made/images/articles/1_forest_mgt_ticks_web_400_240_60.jpg

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            They usually climb up grass and wait till something passes they can hold on to.

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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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