On May 27, Mr. Huang from Tianqiao Village, Shuangliu Town, Huangchuan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province reported that recently, three elderly people, including his father, have suffered from "fever with platelet syndrome (commonly known as "tick disease")" Died without treatment. One other person is receiving treatment. Mr. Huang said that an elderly man in the same village also died of tick disease before. Three elderly people, including Mr. Huang's father, helped to clean and dress the deceased.
According to Mr. Huang, Huang Cheng (pseudonym), an elderly man in the same village who was over 70 years old, was previously diagnosed with "thrombocytopenia syndrome" (commonly known as "tick disease") and died on May 5 after returning to the village. On the 6th, at the request of Huang Cheng's family, Mr. Huang's father Huang Hua (pseudonym) and others went to Huang Cheng's house to help.
11 After the funeral, 66-year-old Huang Hua became unwell. On the 15th, Mr. Huang's mother sent her husband to Xinyang 990 Hospital for treatment. After multiple examinations, he was diagnosed with "Fever with Platelet Syndrome" and his condition was serious. Unfortunately, he passed away on the afternoon of May 26.
Mr. Huang’s father’s hospitalization examination report. Photo provided by the person involved. Photo source: The Paper
An old man in his 80s, Yang Laohan (surnamed Hua), who lived in Shangcheng County, was Huangcheng’s uncle. He had previously helped to clean and dress the deceased, but later died on May 20 due to similar illnesses. Mr. Huang said that after the death of Old Man Yang, Huang Cheng’s elder brother and Huang Hua passed away one after another, and all three of them were over 60 years old. Another relative of Huang Cheng is receiving treatment.
What exactly is "tick disease"?
Can it be spread from person to person?
Can “tick disease” be treated and prevented?
Why can tiny ticks kill people?
Ticks are about the same size as fleas , and they especially like to bite areas where human skin is thin and easily overlooked, such as the scalp, behind the ears, and between the toes. When not sucking blood, it is as big as a shriveled mung bean. After sucking enough blood, it can reach the size of fingernail . It carries a variety of pathogens that infect the human body and can cause local damage or some tick-borne diseases.
Every spring and summer is the active period of ticks. People who are bitten by ticks may experience symptoms such as local skin redness and swelling, fever, general weakness, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lack of energy, anorexia, and even death in severe cases.
As a kind of parasitic, blood-sucking arthropod , ticks can spread many diseases. The most serious one is forest encephalitis, which usually occurs most frequently in spring and summer after people come into contact with the forest. When severe, it will invade the central nervous system, often accompanied by symptoms such as fever and nerve paralysis. The most serious cases can cause paralysis, even respiratory failure and death.
can be "passed from person to person" , mostly transmitted through blood
In 2021, Professor Wang Hua, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and deputy chief physician Bao Changjun, deputy director of the center's Institute of Acute Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, and others reported in the "New England Medicine" "Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases" and "Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases" published papers, which proved that "tick disease" can be "transmitted from person to person" through the detection and research of two familial clusters of tick disease - patients in the acute stage of the disease and the blood of corpses and bloody secretions are contagious, and direct contact with a patient's blood or bloody secretions can lead to infection. Bao Changjun once pointed out in an interview that most tick diseases are mainly transmitted through ticks, and the chance of transmission from person to person is relatively small. In human-to-human transmission, it is mainly infected through blood, and the possibility of respiratory tract infection is low.
In 2019, the Anhui Provincial Health Commission website issued the "Announcement on the Prevention and Treatment of Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome". The article mentioned that healthy people can be infected through damaged skin or mucous membranes by direct contact with the blood and secretions (such as feces, urine, saliva, semen) of fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome infected persons, or through broken skin or mucous membranes. Infection occurs through contact with items contaminated with body fluids of a patient, such as clothing, bed linens, or used needles. Contact with the corpses of people who died from the disease can also lead to the spread of the virus. Regarding the many cases of human-to-human transmission across the country at that time, the article stated that “it was mainly related to improper protection."
How to deal with the tick bite correctly?
How to deal with the affected area after being bitten?
A picture will give you the answer
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Column editor: Qin Hong Text editor: Cao Fei Picture source: Tuchong picture editor: Zhu Xuan
Source: Author: CCTV.com
