According to news from Japan's "Hebei Xinbao" on the evening of the 17th, patients with tsutsugamushi disease appeared in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan in early May.
This disease used to only occur in the area of the Sea of Japan in northern Japan. Today, except for Hokkaido and Okinawa, there are tsutsugamushi in all Japan.
This year, 300-500 people have become ill and several have died.
According to the Yamagata Prefecture Health Research Institute in Japan, tsutsugamushi disease is usually caused by the bite of a tsutsugamushi larva that carries the pathogen.
The body length of tsutsugamushi is only 0.2-0.5 cm, and it inhabits mountains, forests, wilderness, riversides and other places.
Generally, the bite is the soft skin under the clothes. After the incubation period of 5-14 days, the patient will have a fever to 38-40 degrees Celsius, resulting in general fatigue, headache and other cold-like symptoms.
After that, the rash spread all over the body, and the lymph nodes near the bite were swollen.
If not treated in time, it may cause death.
There is currently no effective vaccine for this disease.
The government of Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan warned the public to take precautions, stating that people should wear long-sleeved trousers as much as possible when going to the mountains where insects and mites inhabit, do not expose their skin, and spray insect repellent in time.
(Producing Le Xiaomin)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]