Some unexplained cases of severe tick-related illness may have a previously overlooked cause. A newly identified tick-borne virus may help explain why some patients in China develop symptoms resembling a dangerous hemorrhagic fever even though tests for the expected virus come back negative. Researchers identified the virus as Asian longhorned tick nairovirus, or ALTNV. Among [...] New Tick-Borne Virus May Explain Mysterious Cases of Severe Illness
Some unexplained cases of severe tick-related illness may have a previously overlooked cause. A newly identified tick-borne virus may help explain why some patients in China develop symptoms resembling a dangerous hemorrhagic fever even though tests for the expected virus come back negative. Researchers identified the virus as Asian longhorned tick nairovirus, or ALTNV. Among [...] 

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