Data=KCDC Image=KCDC As the season of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) infection is approaching, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun monitoring the ...

The first case of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in Korea this year was confirmed on Friday.

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 ...

Known as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS, the highly fatal viral hemorrhagic fever spreads to humans through ixodid ticks, which are typically found in mountains, forests and ...