In China, new disease kills 7, leaves 60 others infected
At least seven people have died in Anhui and East China's Zhejiang province due to the virus, the report said. SFTS Virus is not a new virus.
New Delhi: Even before the Coronvirus could subside, a fresh contagious disease is said to have broken out in China. It has already seen 7 casualties while 60 others are in the grip of infection, reports said.
More than 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 Times quoted media reports.
A woman from Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, who suffered from the virus showed 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.
At least seven people have died in Anhui and East China’s Zhejiang province due to the virus, the report said.
SFTS Virus is not a new virus.
Virologists believe that the infection may have been passed on to humans by ticks and that the virus can be transmitted between humans, it said.