Fever -- Japan
A Japanese woman [died last year, 2016] from a tick-borne virus after being bitten by a stray cat in what is possibly the world's 1st animal-to-human transmission of the disease.
The woman in her 50s died some 10 days after being bitten by the cat last year after she took the animal to a veterinary hospital.
Authorities have since confirmed that she developed SFTS, a disease transmitted by bites from a certain group of virus-carrying ticks.
Human-to-human infections of the tick virus
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2eNsVZh
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