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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease recently discovered in northeast and central China. SFTS has fatality rates ranging from 12% to as high as 30% in some areas. The major clinical symptoms of SFTS are fever vomiting diarrhea multiple organ failure thrombocytopenia (low platelet count) leucopenia (low white blood cell count) and elevated liver enzyme levels.
