Saturday, February 21, 2015

Ticks Bitten Man Got A New Virus Disease - Bourbon Virus

According to CDC reports, a man in Bourbon is bitten by ticks. He take it common and never got medication. After few days, he found sick and consulted doctor. Doctors sent his blood sample to USA Center for Disease Control and Prevention for examination. Official at CDC said that a unique virus is detected in his blood sample which was never known. As initial tests they call it Bourbon virus.


Man was working in usual routine and never noticed ticks moving around. A male tick take a fresh bite and that was begging of new disease even known to medical science. Researchers said that virus is from a family thogotoviruses. It is commonly found in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Newly discovered Bourbon Virus (Credits: CDC)
Patient got little nausea in beginning. Then it tuned to weakness, diarrhea, body temperature increase, severe chills and then fever. He is becoming serious day by day because there is no treatment for this virus. Erin Staples from CDC said that patient is treated with possible antibiotics to treat fever but still no results. Now he is admitted in University of Kansas's Medical Center.

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