A Farmer Dies From A Disease Connected To Tick Bites, It Is A Mysterious Disease That Until Now Experts Are Searching For

Presently, there are several fatal diseases emerge from an unknown location and until now there is no treatment available in any hospitals and medical centers. The disease still a puzzle to the medical world and researchers and experts are putting enough time and attention to find the treatment for this unknown disease.


This story is seemingly similar with the University of Kansas Hospital experienced when a patient identified to be a farmer have been confining in the hospital. The farmer came from the Bourbon Country and having found out that he was suffering from an uncommon disease. The patient had put to a several test and treatment procedures to save his life.

But the physicians and specialist from the hospital were not able to determine the reason why the farmer's condition and situation resulted in organ failure. After ten days when the farmer has been brought to the hospital, his lungs failed and also his blood pressure break down.However, other specialists in the hospital specialize in treating several infectious diseases had concluded why the farmer is suffering.

The specialist Dr. Dana Hawkinson concluded that the patient is indeed suffering from a sickness called as Tick-borne disease.Dr. Hawkinson said

"We didn’t have an answer for the longest time as to why is he not getting better? What is causing this? Nothing that we’re doing is seeming to help even though we’re going to the nth degree to try and give him supportive care and give him active care to try and get him better." 

Based on the blood test taken at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found out that there is the presence of a new pathogen inside the farmer's body, which is the same to foreign sickness spread by mosquitoes and ticks which they called as " The Bourbon Virus,"

After three years of research and study after the virus has been found out, the treatment for this disease has not been discovered and remain a puzzle to them. After a year, there is another same case was reported in Oklahoma. Dr. Hawkinson state that there may be other cases which are still not diagnosed, but identify the symptoms of the mysterious disease like muscle pain, headache, chills, fever, malaise, nausea, and vomiting. However, before having diagnosed with a Bourbon virus, they are also searching and checking if the patient is suffering from other symptoms such as low blood cell count, high fever, low platelet count, and escalated liver enzymes.

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