Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan

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A disease caused by a rare tissue-damaging bacteria is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed COVID-era restrictions.

Cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) reached 977 this year by June 2, higher than the record 941 cases reported for all of last year, according to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, which has been tracking incidences of the disease since 1999.

At the current rate of infections, the number of cases in Japan could reach 2,500 this year, with a mortality rate of 30%,” said Ken Kikuchi, a professor of infectious diseases at Tokyo Women’s Medical University.

"Most of the deaths happen within 48 hours,” Kikuchi said. "As soon as a patient notices swelling in (their) foot in the morning, it can expand to the knee by noon, and they can die within 48 hours.”

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You assume wrong. Not only are there bats, some of them are quite fond of human structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_house_bat

Also, it's cute:

I want to feed it crickets and watch it munch them.

Okay there's our smoking gun! So they too eat bats probably. I gotta assume that wherever we find bats, there's at least one idiot hungry enough to fry one.

I don't believe bat is big in Japanese cuisine. They're not really the "we eat every meat" culture the Chinese are.

I had to search it : https://youtu.be/cmjah88Ugic

Well I can't speak for that YouTube video, but my searching is coming up with a bunch of people saying that bat meat is generally not eaten in Japan. There might be people there who eat it. Who knows? People eat roadkill.

Just look at this cute flying Chihuahua!

https://youtu.be/S8zhnXZdTFM

It's eating banana!

I love bats. There's a bat festival the university puts on here every year, I always go.

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