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Bourbon Virus: New Tick-Borne Virus Linked To The Death Of A Kansas Man
Dec 22, 2014 05:16 PM By Justin Caba (http://www.medicaldaily.com/reporters/justin-caba) @jcaba33
(http://www.twitter.com/jcaba33)
http://images.medicaldaily.com/sites/medicaldaily.com/files/styles/headline/public/2014/12/22/bourbon-virus.jpg?itok=fxcYqchn
Newly discovered tick-borne illness causes the death of a man in Kansas. CC by 2.0, Franziska Bauer
Following the death of a man in Kansas, infectious disease experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment struggled to uncover the mysterious illness that led to the victim’s untimely death. Doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital have now announced that a new tick-borne virus, dubbed “Bourbon Virus” after Bourbon County, Kan., where it was first discovered, caused the man’s death.
"Bourbon virus has likely been around for some time, but only recently did we have the diagnostic techniques to isolate and identify such viruses," Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease specialist at the Unviersity of Kansas Hospital, said in a statement (http://www.medicalnewsnetwork.org/NewsNetwork/DocTalk/B/Bourbon%20Virus).
According to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/tick-borne/), the United States is home to a variety of tick-borne illnesses, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne relapsing fever, Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness, Q fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and tularemia. The most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. is Lyme disease. Over 22,500 confirmed and 7,500 probable Lyme disease cases were reported to the CDC in 2010.
The man came to doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital last summer with symptoms consistent with most tick-borne illnesses, including high fever, severe headache, muscle aches, and nausea. After his condition was unresponsive to typical treatments, he eventually experienced multi-organ failure and passed away. Six months after the man’s death, doctors have now determined Bourbon Virus to be the cause. Since there is no vaccine for Bourbon Virus, doctors have advised the public to avoid being bitten by a tick.
Experts say Bourbon Virus is comparable to another tick-borne illness known as heartland virus (http://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/heartland/). Heartland virus was first discovered back in 2012, and as of March 2014 eight cases have been identified among residents of Missouri and Tennessee. Although most patients who were hospitalized as a result of their condition eventually recovered, one did die. Similar to Bourbon Virus, doctors say the only way to contract heartland virus is via a bite from a mosquito, tick, or sandfly.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/bourbon-virus-new-tick-borne-virus-linked-death-kansas-man-315266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJV401-kBuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJV401-kBuw
New Tick-Borne 'Bourbon Virus' Is Deadly And Unlike Anything Previously Seen In U.S.
Researchers have identified the cause of a Kansas farmer's mysterious death (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/science/mysterious-virus-that-killed-a-farmer-in-kansas-is-identified.html?_r=1) this summer as Bourbon virus.
Thought to be transmitted by ticks, the virus "was fast-moving and severe, causing lung and kidney failure, and shock," The New York Times reported, killing the previously healthy man after only 10 days in the hospital.
Together, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and University of Kansas Hospital researchers identified the virus as a thogotovirus, part of a larger type of viruses called orthomyxoviruses, Dana Hawkinson, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at The University of Kansas Hospital said in the video statement above (http://www.medicalnewsnetwork.org/NewsNetwork/DocTalk/B/Bourbon%20Virus#sthash.PZluj9X2.dpuf).
Bourbon virus, named after Bourbon County, Kansas, where the only known patient lived (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tick-borne-bourbon-virus-blamed-kansas-mans-death/story?id=27764076), is similar to viruses seen previously in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, said Hawkinson, but nothing like it had ever been identified in the Western Hemisphere before.
He called the experience of working with a never-before-seen virus frustrating, as the lack of understanding of the illness left many questions unanswered for both the patient's family and the researchers. "We don't know the full spectrum of disease because it's the first case," he said. For example, no one knows whether or not the disease is usually deadly or if there could be more mild cases from which future patients could recover.
Symptoms include fever, loss of appetite, muscle aches and a general feeling of malaise. But while similar tick-borne illnesses typically are treated with antibiotics, this disease is transmitted by a virus (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tick-borne-bourbon-virus-blamed-kansas-mans-death/story?id=27764076), and therefore won't respond to the medication. Indeed, the Kansas patient did not respond to traditional therapies (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/doctors-kan-discover-bourbon-virus-ticks-article-1.2054574) after testing negative for typical tick-borne diseases at the University of Kansas Hospital, New York Daily News reported.
Lyme disease (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/tick-borne/) is the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S., with over 27,000 confirmed cases in 2013 (http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/chartstables/reportedcases_statelocality.html), the most recent year from which data is available. Cold weather typically keeps ticks and disease-transmitting insects at bay, but from roughly April to September, Hawkinson said, be sure to protect yourself by wearing long clothes and insect repellent when you could be exposed, and to do a thorough tick check after returning home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/24/bourbon-virus-tick-kansas_n_6377932.html
Looking around the web, lots of suspicion about this one, just one person known to ever have it?
Bourbon Virus: New Tick-Borne Virus Linked To The Death Of A Kansas Man
Dec 22, 2014 05:16 PM By Justin Caba (http://www.medicaldaily.com/reporters/justin-caba) @jcaba33
(http://www.twitter.com/jcaba33)
http://images.medicaldaily.com/sites/medicaldaily.com/files/styles/headline/public/2014/12/22/bourbon-virus.jpg?itok=fxcYqchn
Newly discovered tick-borne illness causes the death of a man in Kansas. CC by 2.0, Franziska Bauer
Following the death of a man in Kansas, infectious disease experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment struggled to uncover the mysterious illness that led to the victim’s untimely death. Doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital have now announced that a new tick-borne virus, dubbed “Bourbon Virus” after Bourbon County, Kan., where it was first discovered, caused the man’s death.
"Bourbon virus has likely been around for some time, but only recently did we have the diagnostic techniques to isolate and identify such viruses," Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease specialist at the Unviersity of Kansas Hospital, said in a statement (http://www.medicalnewsnetwork.org/NewsNetwork/DocTalk/B/Bourbon%20Virus).
According to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/tick-borne/), the United States is home to a variety of tick-borne illnesses, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne relapsing fever, Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness, Q fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and tularemia. The most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. is Lyme disease. Over 22,500 confirmed and 7,500 probable Lyme disease cases were reported to the CDC in 2010.
The man came to doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital last summer with symptoms consistent with most tick-borne illnesses, including high fever, severe headache, muscle aches, and nausea. After his condition was unresponsive to typical treatments, he eventually experienced multi-organ failure and passed away. Six months after the man’s death, doctors have now determined Bourbon Virus to be the cause. Since there is no vaccine for Bourbon Virus, doctors have advised the public to avoid being bitten by a tick.
Experts say Bourbon Virus is comparable to another tick-borne illness known as heartland virus (http://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dvbd/heartland/). Heartland virus was first discovered back in 2012, and as of March 2014 eight cases have been identified among residents of Missouri and Tennessee. Although most patients who were hospitalized as a result of their condition eventually recovered, one did die. Similar to Bourbon Virus, doctors say the only way to contract heartland virus is via a bite from a mosquito, tick, or sandfly.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/bourbon-virus-new-tick-borne-virus-linked-death-kansas-man-315266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJV401-kBuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJV401-kBuw
New Tick-Borne 'Bourbon Virus' Is Deadly And Unlike Anything Previously Seen In U.S.
Researchers have identified the cause of a Kansas farmer's mysterious death (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/science/mysterious-virus-that-killed-a-farmer-in-kansas-is-identified.html?_r=1) this summer as Bourbon virus.
Thought to be transmitted by ticks, the virus "was fast-moving and severe, causing lung and kidney failure, and shock," The New York Times reported, killing the previously healthy man after only 10 days in the hospital.
Together, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and University of Kansas Hospital researchers identified the virus as a thogotovirus, part of a larger type of viruses called orthomyxoviruses, Dana Hawkinson, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at The University of Kansas Hospital said in the video statement above (http://www.medicalnewsnetwork.org/NewsNetwork/DocTalk/B/Bourbon%20Virus#sthash.PZluj9X2.dpuf).
Bourbon virus, named after Bourbon County, Kansas, where the only known patient lived (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tick-borne-bourbon-virus-blamed-kansas-mans-death/story?id=27764076), is similar to viruses seen previously in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, said Hawkinson, but nothing like it had ever been identified in the Western Hemisphere before.
He called the experience of working with a never-before-seen virus frustrating, as the lack of understanding of the illness left many questions unanswered for both the patient's family and the researchers. "We don't know the full spectrum of disease because it's the first case," he said. For example, no one knows whether or not the disease is usually deadly or if there could be more mild cases from which future patients could recover.
Symptoms include fever, loss of appetite, muscle aches and a general feeling of malaise. But while similar tick-borne illnesses typically are treated with antibiotics, this disease is transmitted by a virus (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tick-borne-bourbon-virus-blamed-kansas-mans-death/story?id=27764076), and therefore won't respond to the medication. Indeed, the Kansas patient did not respond to traditional therapies (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/doctors-kan-discover-bourbon-virus-ticks-article-1.2054574) after testing negative for typical tick-borne diseases at the University of Kansas Hospital, New York Daily News reported.
Lyme disease (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/tick-borne/) is the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S., with over 27,000 confirmed cases in 2013 (http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/chartstables/reportedcases_statelocality.html), the most recent year from which data is available. Cold weather typically keeps ticks and disease-transmitting insects at bay, but from roughly April to September, Hawkinson said, be sure to protect yourself by wearing long clothes and insect repellent when you could be exposed, and to do a thorough tick check after returning home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/24/bourbon-virus-tick-kansas_n_6377932.html
Looking around the web, lots of suspicion about this one, just one person known to ever have it?