“…Within the first week post-symptom onset, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, and other clinical indicators return to normal levels in mild SFTS patients while viral titers decline out to 14 days post initial symptoms onset. Following the first clinical stage, severe SFTS patients reach the MOD/MOF stage, which is characterized clinically by elevated AST/ALT, and high viral titer reaching 1 × 10 8 viral copies/mL and can experience secondary bacterial or fungal infections, hemorrhagic manifestations, central nervous system (CNS) disorders, disseminated intravascular coagulation, shock, and acute respiratory distress [39,42,51,54,55]. The clinical disease courses for SFTS and HRTV disease has been well-described by several groups, which is characterized by three phases: Stage I (fever stage), Stage II (multiorgan dysfunction (MOD)/multiorgan failure (MOF) stage), and Stage III (convalescent stage) ( Figure 2) [42,[51][52][53].…”