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Japan confirms first human-to-human transmission of tick-borne SFTS virus
(www.japantimes.co.jp)
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basically, ticks are fishing from the low brush and grass. they hang around with their "hooks" out waiting for something to wander by where their hair or fur snags on the tick's hooks and away they go!