Monday, 19 August 2019

PRO/AH/EDR> Spotted fever - Germany: Rickettsia aeschlimannii via hyalomma tick

Other Human Disease -- Germany
The University of Hohenheim and the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology [IMB] have detected spotted fever in a hyalomma tick, the 1st time such a tick is suspected to have caused disease in a human in Germany.
This tick feeds on humans and can transmit a form of spotted fever in Germany. What were still unanswered questions about the tropical giant tick hyalomma is now certainty. At the beginning of August [2019], it was suspected that for the 1st time, a human in Germany had contracted a

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6628766&promed&0

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