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Understanding tick immunity may be key to preventing killer viruses from spreading

By Marine J. Petit, Lecturer in Virology, Section of Virology, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey

A tiny tick crawls across your skin, potentially carrying a virus so lethal it kills up to four out of every ten people it infects. Yet that same tick shows no signs of illness whatsoever – it feeds, moves and reproduces as if nothing is wrong.

Scientists studying severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) have long wondered why this happens. The pathogen, first…

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