[YONHAP] The first case of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in Korea this year was confirmed on Friday. A SFTS infection was confirmed in a woman in her 80s residing in Namwon ...

Japan confirmed its first case of human-to-human transmission of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), a potentially fatal tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever. The National Institute ...

SFTS is an emerging infectious disease, with the first patient found in China in 2011. Ensuing cases have mostly been found in East Asia, and the first case in Japan was reported in Yamaguchi ...