2023-06-24 23:21:07
A woman died this Saturday in Japan following contracting the Oz virus, which is transmitted through tick bites. The health authorities of the Asian country confirmed the cause of death, clarifying that “it makes it the first death in the world from this infection, which is deduced, has been transmitted by these parasites.”
“The woman had already gone to the Ibaraki medical center (one of the forty-seven prefectures that make up Japan) last summer, following experiencing symptoms such as fever, fatigue and vomiting. There she was diagnosed with pneumonia, they gave her treatment, asking her to recover at home, ”the Europa Press agency reported.
Tokyo television station Kiodo News detailed: “After her condition worsened, she was hospitalized and a swollen tick was found on the upper part of her right thigh.” And she added that the patient presented myocarditis 26 days following being hospitalized. Medical staff detected that the Oz virus was present in heart muscle cells.
“There is currently no vaccine once morest this virus, which was only found in Japan, although being infected is not necessarily fatal, but more studies should be carried out on its symptoms and dangers,” explained the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo. . “The virus was discovered in 2018 and is believed to be transmitted through tick bites, a very common species throughout the island nation in the Pacific Ocean,” the Jiji Press agency said.
For its part, the Ministry of Health of Japan clarified that no other cases of people who have died from the virus have been confirmed so far. Ticks are primarily blood-feeding parasites of mammals, often found in tall grasses. They are vectors of multiple diseases, many of their larvae attack livestock and it is difficult to detect their presence, it only becomes noticeable when thousands have already adhered to the animal, making its eradication difficult.
Although it is the first death from this virus, it is not the first death caused by a tick bite. These insects are transmitters of diseases such as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Typhus and Lyme disease. These animals are responsible for the death of more than 700,000 people in the world every year from their bite.
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