{"id":274969,"date":"2026-02-09T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:08:24","slug":"can-this-super-antibody-overpower-sfts-a-deadly-tick-borne-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274969\/","title":{"rendered":"Can this \u2018super antibody\u2019 overpower SFTS, a deadly tick-borne disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the world of tick-borne illnesses, Lyme disease gets the headlines.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For example, Greg Yang, one of the 12 original co-founders of Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, said in late January that he was stepping back from the company after being diagnosed with the disease.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Accidentally eating the wrong food would leave him \u201cextremely tired\u201d, requiring days to recover, he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But there is a more dangerous condition transmitted by the ticks that a team at a Chinese university might now have a way to treat.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The discovery, they said, could \u201copen up new avenues\u201d for tackling the growing threat posed by ticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the world of tick-borne illnesses, Lyme disease gets the headlines. For example, Greg Yang, one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[85,607,155029,95133,2024,155032,155031,8870,134,1759,29550,111,139,64,69,155030,4790,1430],"class_list":{"0":"post-274969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-dabie-bandavirus","11":"tag-east-asia","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-greg-yang","14":"tag-haemaphysalis-longicornis","15":"tag-hangzhou","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-lyme-disease","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-north-america","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-severe-fever-with-thrombocytopenia-syndrome","24":"tag-south-korea","25":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}