People warned to beware of tick-borne infections in Japan

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“Anti-viral, to treat new strains of influenza” maybe, but Avigan was touted long and loud for the Corona virus.

Ticks, lovely creatures, but not to be messed with.

I am fully dressed when working in the garden but I still have several insect bites, mostly mosquitos. I try to avoid places that might have ticks.

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In respect to arboviral diseases people will have to care much more about tick bites while cases increase until it becomes part of the daily lives of those exposed. In the future years the same will have to happen about mosquito bites that inevitably will become more and more dangerous with less severe winters.

Sensitive to human body heat, ticks are adept at detaching themselves from trees and alighting on their human hosts to feed.

However, Tokyoites are not likely to encounter these voracious parasites due to a complete lack of foliage…

It’s not only global warming. It’s the National Police Agency completely irrational fear of allowing people to hunt the pest animals which carry these insects close to human habitation. Soon there will be almost no hunters because it’s more difficult to get a shotgun and a hunting license than it is to get a driver’s license and an automobile. Until the tick diseases start happening in metropolitan areas the politicians and government will continue to ignore the problem.

She recommended that people avoid exposing their skin by wearing long-sleeve tops, full-length trousers, hats, gloves and other clothing, as well as making sure they cover their necks with towels in woodland areas, use insect repellent and take baths following outdoor activities.

Oh I can't wait to go outside and enjoy nature like this.

Soon there will be almost no hunters because it’s more difficult to get a shotgun and a hunting license than it is to get a driver’s license and an automobile.

This is desirable and would not represent a problem, there is much less need of hunters than people able to drive automobiles, so even a small amount of hunters would be enough. Still not likely to make a big impact since ticks that transmit diseases are not only carried by deers or wild boars but even by stray cats or birds, which obviously would not be hunted.

Put your pants cuff,inside your socks

These diseases are mainly carried by other animals spreading the virus around. Human hikers and people wandering the woods carry a few of them but not enough to make a difference.

What you can do is cover up and after a hike, check your body. Small black things protruding from the skin are ticks. Cut them as close to the skin as possible when pulling out.

so everyone should stay home to save lives...

My biggest concern in my area are the large numbers of stray/feral cats that roam through the bushland and use house gardens, doorsteps, mats etc as their resting/shelter places.

I've had to remove a dead cat from the gutter in front of my house with blood sucking dani the size of peas on it's stomach. Not pretty.

I tell people but I don't think they realize the danger - slight but real and present.

so everyone should stay home to save 

Wonder if it’s possible to stay socially distanced from a tick…..?

I was bitten by a tick while climbing Mt. Atago a few weeks ago in the Kyoto area. The tick had managed to lodge itself between my toes, and I didn’t notice it until I put my socks on the next morning. I don’t seem to have any symptoms of Lyme disease, but I know it’s not something to be taken lightly. My friend in the UK suffered terribly with facial palsy following a tick bite.

I think the Lyme disease tick bite leave a circular "target " shaped bite mark.

If I get a tick I pull the sucker off,,,the head usually comes to but the poison part is in the body....that what a vet told me anyway. Then I tweezer the head part out.

Better off than in.

Thanks for the warning.

My place is full of ticks! I'm constantly pulling them off my pets in Spring after the first rains! They usually inhabit long grass!

I've hiked and camped all over this country for three decades. Zero tick troubles.

Mountain pear above....there are tick repellants for dogs both internal and external.

Works for my dog.

Google them

@GuruMick Yes, thanks! I use insect repellant for ticks, fleas etc. but it doesn't always work, they especially like to stick to the rims of the eyes! I try to pull them off as soon as I discover them!

It’s the National Police Agency completely irrational fear of allowing people to hunt the pest animals which carry these insects close to human habitationSoon there will be almost no hunters because it’s more difficult to get a shotgun and a hunting license than it is to get a driver’s license and an automobile. 

@MichaelBukakis Using a gun is inefficient for both eliminating animals and for getting the meat.

In Japan, trapping (for deer and boar) is much more common than gun hunting, and it is also much more effective. This is how almost all game meat is caught in Japan since there are no random lead pellets embedded in the animal from a shotgun. One person can only use one gun, but the same person can have up to 30 snare traps.

Traps can be used in semi-residential areas, and there is no limiting seasonality as with gun hunting (trapping is possible all year).

And getting a trapping license is much easier than getting one for a gun, so strict gun regulations and the police have little to do with animal management.

(not to mention, if getting a gun was much easier, then the number of deaths from guns per year in Japan would probably greatly exceed by multiple times the number of deaths from ticks, along with increased armed robberies, annoying levels of security that currently aren't needed, and forests full of wannabe Rambos shooting up things with no idea what they are doing).

A a child, I remember my father using lighted cigarettes to touch blood-sucking ticks. They pull their own head out soon enough.

Japan's Institute for Infectious Disease on 21/03/2024 reported the country's first known case of human-to-human transmission of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), a disease primarily spread by ticks but in very rare instances has spread from infected animals or people. Doctors described the findings yesterday in an online report that was translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. An emergency department (ED) doctor contracted the virus in April 2023 after evaluating a man in his 90s who had fever, lack of appetite, and difficulty moving. The medical team suspected SFTS, and the patient was hospitalized but died 3 days later. The ED doctor helped care for the patient in the hospital and had removed the patient's indwelling venous catheter. Eleven days after the ED visit, the doctor began having symptoms and tested positive for SFTS virus. He had no recent history of tick bites and didn't have pets.

How many death or murder in Japan by firearms ? 9 compare to 49,000 in the USA. Think the fire arms licensing in Japan works. Not so in the USA.

Tick-borne infectious diseases, such as scrub typhus and Japanese spotted fever, have long been observed in Japan. The parasites can also be the source of infections such as Lyme disease.

In recent years, however, cases have been reported of infectious diseases previously undetected in humans in the country, believed to be caused by tick-borne viruses.

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Maybe these previous undetected infections came from tick that feasted on foreigners visiting Japan ?

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insert image of two ticks talking while looking at foreigners at a camp site .

Tick one : What shall we have tonight ?

Tick two : We have choice of Chinese. Tia, Indian, Mexican,

Do flea and tick collars really work?

OK, raise and call. This little problem solved once and for all, isn't that an extremely easy task which your oh so great and high future potential AI can solve in milliseconds? Go ahead and show it. Let it generate or calculate a solution that works or at least find a chemical or whatever substance keeping these beasts or the whole plague away from people. Input data, server capacities, big super computers, GPUs, TPUs, big GAN models, everything is there available, so what are you waiting for?