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Other Viruses => Tick Related Illness => Topic started by: Data Report on March 20, 2024, 09:11:55 am

Title: Re: Japan records first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne disease
Post by: Steve on March 20, 2024, 03:15:06 pm

Thanks for the article.

Unfortunately, it appears to be vaguely worded. Do we know if it means, "the first human-to-human transmission ever recorded and it just so happens to have occurred in Japan" or "the first human-to-human transmission of tick-bourne disease to have happened in Japan"? Given that this doesn't seem to have much press, I'd say human-to-human has happened before but just not in Japan. However, given the wording of the article, it just isn't clear which one.

Title: Japan records first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne disease
Post by: Data Report on March 20, 2024, 09:11:55 am

Japan records first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne disease.


Source of information.

1. The Straits Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-records-first-human-to-human-transmission-of-tick-borne-disease