The study suggests that the Yezo virus, a type of orthonairovirus, transmits between animals and humans via ticks and causes fever and other symptoms in humans.
Creationist mode: 
Here's some great news to thrill worshippers of Creationism's favourite malevolence, the putative designer god responsible for all living things and any changes they undergo over time.
Researchers at Hokkaido University, Japan, have identified a previously unknown, tick-borne virus, a type of orthonairovirus they have named Yezo virus. When infected from a tick bite, victims suffer from a fever, and a reduction in platelets (the circulating cell fragments responsible for blood-clotting following injury) and leucocytes (the blood cells responsible for infection control, etc) and abnormal liver function.
As the news release from Hokkaido University explains:
Keita Matsuno, a virologist at Hokkaido University’s International Institute for Zoonosis Control, said: “At least seven people have been infected with this new virus in Japan since 2014, but, so far, no deaths have been confirmed.”The research team included scientists from the Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine and One Health Research Center of Hokkaido University, Sapporo City General Hospital, Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital, Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Rakuno Gakuen University, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, and the University of Liverpool.
The Yezo virus was discovered after a 41-year-old man was admitted to the hospital in 2019 with fever and leg pain after being bitten by an arthropod believed to be a tick while he was walking in a local forest in Hokkaido. He was treated and discharged after two weeks, but tests showed he had not been infected with any known viruses carried by ticks in the region. A second patient showed up with similar symptoms after a tick bite the following year.
Genetic analysis of viruses isolated from blood samples of the two patients found a new type of orthonairovirus, a class of nairovirus, that includes pathogens such as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus. The scientists named it Yezo virus, after a historical Japanese name for Hokkaido, a large island in the north of the country where the virus was discovered. The novel virus was found most closely related to Sulina virus and Tamdy virus, detected in Romania and Uzbekistan, respectively, the latter of which reportedly caused acute fever in humans recently in China.|
The scientists then checked blood samples collected from hospital patients who showed similar symptoms after tick bites since 2014. They found additional positive samples from five patients. These patients, including the first two, had a fever and reduced blood platelets and leucocytes, and showed indicators of abnormal liver function.
To determine the likely source of the virus, the research team screened samples collected from wild animals in the area between 2010 and 2020. They found antibodies for the virus in Hokkaido shika deer and raccoons. They also found the virus RNA in three major species of ticks in Hokkaido. Matsuno says, “The Yezo virus seems to have established its distribution in Hokkaido, and it is highly likely that the virus causes the illness when it is transmitted to humans from animals via ticks.” Three major species of ticks distributed in Hokkaido, Japan. From left, Haemaphysalis megaspinosa male and female, Ixodes ovatus male and female, and Ixodes persulcatus male and female.
Photo: Dr. Ryo Nakao (Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University)
A new virus and a tried and tested delivery system already used by the divine malevolence for several other viruses! And all to make humans feel ill and soften them up for attack by other pathogenic parasites of the intelligent [sic] designer's creation, by reducing their leucocyte count. Not up to its recent standard with SARS-CoV-2, which takes some beating for inventive mendacity, but a worthy effort, nonetheless. At least it makes people fell ill for a while, even if it doesn't kill them.
Creationist mode: 
In the world of real science, the team's findings were published, open access, in Nature Communications:
AbstractOne day, a brave creationist will find the courage to explain why they prefer to blame nasty little things like viruses on their supposedly omni-benevolent deity and so portray it as a pestilential monster who hates its creation and wants to make it suffer, rather than accept that there is an explanation for these things that doesn't involve magic creative deities because the operation of natural processes is quite capable of producing a superficial semblance of design, as we have understood since 1859.
The increasing burden of tick-borne orthonairovirus infections, such as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, is becoming a global concern for public health. In the present study, we identify a novel orthonairovirus, designated Yezo virus (YEZV), from two patients showing acute febrile illness with thrombocytopenia and leukopenia after tick bite in Hokkaido, Japan, in 2019 and 2020, respectively. YEZV is phylogenetically grouped with Sulina virus detected in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Romania. YEZV infection has been confirmed in seven patients from 2014–2020, four of whom were co-infected with Borrelia spp. Antibodies to YEZV are found in wild deer and raccoons, and YEZV RNAs have been detected in ticks from Hokkaido. In this work, we demonstrate that YEZV is highly likely to be the causative pathogen of febrile illness, representing the first report of an endemic infection associated with an orthonairovirus potentially transmitted by ticks in Japan.
Kodama, Fumihiro; Yamaguchi, Hiroki; Park, Eunsil; Tatemoto, Kango; Sashika, Mariko; Nakao, Ryo; Terauchi, Yurino; Mizuma, Keita; Orba, Yasuko; Kariwa, Hiroaki; Hagiwara, Katsuro; Okazaki, Katsunori; Goto, Akiko; Komagome, Rika; Miyoshi, Masahiro; Ito, Takuya; Yamano, Kimiaki; Yoshii, Kentaro; Funaki, Chiaki; Ishizuka, Mariko; Shigeno, Asako; Itakura, Yukari; Bell-Sakyi, Lesley; Edagawa, Shunji; Nagasaka, Atsushi; Sakoda, Yoshihiro; Sawa, Hirofumi; Maeda, Ken; Saijo, Masayuki; Matsuno, Keita
A novel nairovirus associated with acute febrile illness in Hokkaido, Japan
Nature Communications 12, 5539 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25857-0
Copyright: © 2021 The authors. Published by Springer Nature Ltd.
Reprinted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)
Ticks are ancient pests since the Cretaceous period, when Dinosaurs ruled. These evil Arachnids torture both animals and humans. This is another example out of countless examples which illustrate the creator's cruelty, sadism, vileness, degeneracy,insanity, mental blindness, moral blindness, and malevolence. Evil.
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