AUG 14, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Meteorological and environmental factors associated with the spatiotemporal risk of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in Japan: A prefecture-level time-series modeling study.
One Health
A rigorous prefecture-level time-series analysis with a large national dataset and adjustment for confounders, identifying specific meteorological and environmental thresholds for SFTS risk, but based on observational data without a comparator intervention and requiring replication.
Reported
Total SFTS cases1237
Temperature peak RR1.78
Temperature peak RR 95% CI1.26–2.52