A Family Cluster of Infections by a Newly Recognized Bunyavirus in Eastern China, 2007: Further Evidence of Person-to-Person Transmission

Abstract

Clinical and laboratory evidence confirmed that the patients of fever and thrombocytopenia occurring in a family cluster in eastern China in 2007 were caused by a newly recognized bunyavirus, SFTSV. Epidemiological investigation strongly suggests that infection of secondary patients was transmitted to family members by personal contact.