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Five medical staff trying to save emergency patients suffered from severe febrile thrombocytopenia syndrome. It is mainly infected by wild tick bites, with a fatality rate of up to 47%.

This is TBC reporter Jongwoong Lee.

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1 pm on the 28th of last month, an 86-year-old woman with cardiac arrest visited the emergency room of Kyungpook National University Hospital, and medical staff took turns performing CPR for 3 hours.

We did our best with the mind that we should only save, but unexpectedly, 13 medical staff began to show abnormal symptoms such as high fever and chills from the 4th of this month.

Although the symptoms were similar to Corona 19, the test showed that 5 people had severe febrile thrombocytopenia syndrome SFTS.

Of the remaining eight, four are currently negative, three are undecided, and one is being tested.

[Kim Shin-woo/ Professor of Infectious Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital: This patient had a bleeding figure. Blood splatters. Aerosol-like droplets are generated.]

Severe febrile thrombocytopenia syndrome is infected by a tick bite that carries this virus, but it can also be infected through blood and body fluids.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes that the virus would have been discharged at high concentrations, and plans to investigate by setting a wide range of exposure, including workers at the time.

It has been confirmed that there have been no additional cases of infection by hospital patients or other medical staff who have contacted the five medical staff who have been diagnosed with severe febrile thrombocytopenia syndrome.

The fatality rate of severe febrile thrombocytopenia syndrome is 12-47%. This year alone, 8 people were infected and 2 people died, but fortunately, 5 confirmed medical staff showed mild symptoms.

(Video coverage: Daeseung TBC)