Can this ‘super antibody’ overpower SFTS, a deadly tick-borne disease?

In the world of tick-borne illnesses, Lyme disease gets the headlines.

For example, Greg Yang, one of the 12 original co-founders of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, said in late January that he was stepping back from the company after being diagnosed with the disease, saying that accidentally eating the wrong food would leave him “extremely tired”, requiring days to recover.

But there is a more dangerous condition transmitted by the ticks that a team at a Chinese university might now have a way to treat.

The discovery, they said, could “open up new avenues” for tackling the growing threat posed by ticks.

The syndrome has a mortality rate of up to 30 per cent and was first identified in 2009 during investigations into cases of a then unknown illness involving a sudden rise in body temperature.

South China Morning Post