{"id":9752,"date":"2025-06-18T08:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:34:04","slug":"veterinarian-dies-from-tick-borne-disease-after-treating-infected-cats-in-west-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/18\/veterinarian-dies-from-tick-borne-disease-after-treating-infected-cats-in-west-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinarian dies from tick-borne disease after treating infected cats in west Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20250616\/p2a\/00m\/0li\/003000c\">Mainichi<\/a> A veterinarian in Mie Prefecture who treated cats infected with an ixodid tick-borne disease has died from the same illness, the local veterinarians&#8217; association told the Mainichi Shimbun on June 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The veterinarian is believed to have contracted &#8220;severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)&#8221; from one of the cats, prompting the Japan Veterinary Medical Association, which was notified by the Mie prefectural veterinarians&#8217; association, to call for caution during treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by the prefectural association, the veterinarian hospitalized two cats, a 9-month-old male and female, each showing symptoms of SFTS for one week to 10 days in late April, sending samples to a private testing facility while providing treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainichi A veterinarian in Mie Prefecture who treated cats infected with an ixodid tick-borne disease has died from the same illness, the local veterinarians&#8217; association told the Mainichi Shimbun on June 13. The veterinarian is believed to have contracted &#8220;severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)&#8221; from one of the cats, prompting the Japan Veterinary Medical [&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":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"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\/9752","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=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9753,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions\/9753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}