After SARS, Zika, the 'enemies' of humans are parasitic ticks?

In just 17 years, humans have to cope with new epidemics such as SARS, Ebola, MERS, and most recently Zika. But scientists think the next danger will come from a familiar little animal: parasitic ticks .

The tick (also known as tick or tick) is a small group of insects distributed throughout the Earth, belonging to the class of spider-shaped animals, living by parasites and sucking on other animals. Parasitic ticks are also intermediaries for transmitting disease from animals to humans.

Will parasitic ticks be a threat in the future?- (Photo: Getty Images).

In 1975, ticks became "world famous" because they were mediators of Lyme disease . This disease is transmitted from animals to humans with the agent of Borrelia Burgdorferi .

The disease causes damage mainly in the skin, nervous system, heart and joints. Statistically, Lyme disease affects 300,000 people in the United States and 65,000 people in Europe each year.

According to The Guardian, today, the number of pathogens that live in the ticks is increasing while the number of ticks is discovered more.

also a cause for parasitic ticks to 'get closer' to humans. With the process of urbanization, the natural habitat of the tick gradually disappears, making them capable of 'invading' human territory.

Helping them expand their operating areas to the cold areas that were hard to reach before. In addition, today continents are no longer separated by a convenient transportation system that connects everywhere in the world. Therefore, parasitic ticks can 'travel' throughout the world.

These are favorable conditions to help expand the territory and adapt to a new living environment. Since then, there are many other diseases caused by parasitic ticks that are vectors of disease transmission.

Typically, Babesiosis disease, caused by parasitic ticks, transmits bacterial species like the transmission species. Doctors are very difficult to detect the disease and calculate the level of global infection. Partly due to signs of illness like other common diseases with symptoms such as fever, fatigue, anemia, and nausea.

About half of infected adults are normal and do not show any signs of infection, while the rest are at high risk of death.

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In addition, the Crimean-Congo , which is one of the diseases caused by parasitic ticks, has not yet been treated.

Common diseases will develop into outbreaks, first discovered in the 1940s. In 2013, Iran, Russia, Turkey and Uzbekistan recorded more than 50 cases. Mortality rates in infected people are 10-40%.

In addition, discovered in 2009, the SFTS virus causes acute thrombocytopenia fever that threatens most of Asia, especially Japan. Since 2013, nearly 60 of the more than 260 people infected with this disease in Japan have died. There is currently no cure or vaccine to prevent this virus.

Signs of very normal disease, such as fever, diarrhea, and affect many organs in the body.

Parasitic ticks are more and more popular, dangerous and 'closely linked' to humans. Therefore, we must recognize the threat from this small animal, which can come right after our garden, not a remote tropical forest in Africa or Asia.