{"id":6872,"date":"2024-06-19T07:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T12:46:21","slug":"a-rare-deadly-bacterial-infection-is-on-the-rise-in-japan-what-is-stss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/19\/a-rare-deadly-bacterial-infection-is-on-the-rise-in-japan-what-is-stss\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare, deadly bacterial infection is on the rise in Japan. What is STSS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/06\/19\/japan-stss-flesh-eating-bacteria\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome kills up to 30 percent of patients and is \u201chighly associated\u201d with flesh-eating infections. Symptoms include fever and a red rash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A record number of cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) in Japan this year has focused attention on the rare and potentiallydeadly bacterial infection. There have been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.kyoto.lg.jp\/hokenfukushi\/cmsfiles\/contents\/0000326\/326147\/topics202423.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,019 cases<\/a>&nbsp;of STSS in the first six months of 2024, surpassing the total number recorded last year in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.niid.go.jp\/niid\/images\/cepr\/RA\/STSS\/240329_STSS_2023-2024_Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Institute of Infectious Diseases<\/a>&nbsp;warned of a rise in cases in March, after 77 deaths from the illness were recorded. The majority of the cases at that time were of people above the age of 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/nndss\/static\/2021\/annual\/2021-table2p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">145 cases of STSS<\/a>\u00a0in 2021, according to the latest data available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, or STSS?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/06\/19\/japan-stss-flesh-eating-bacteria\/#secondary-nav\">Return to menu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is a severe illness caused when Group A Streptococcus bacteria spreads into the blood and deep tissues,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/group-a-strep\/about\/streptococcal-toxic-shock-syndrome.html#cdc_disease_basics_causes_risk_spread-causes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome kills up to 30 percent of patients and is \u201chighly associated\u201d with flesh-eating infections. Symptoms include fever and a red rash. A record number of cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) in Japan this year has focused attention on the rare and potentiallydeadly bacterial infection. There have been&nbsp;1,019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}