Epidemiological data of SFTS cases in Hubei Province from 2018 to 2022.

(A) Confirmed cases of SFTS in Hubei Province from 2018 to 2022. (B) Month distribution of confirmed SFTS cases. (C) Ratio of nonfatal to fatal cases by age group with the case fatality rate (CFR) showed with the datapoints. Blue represented non-fatal cases and red represented fatal cases. (D) Spatial arrangement of confirmed SFTS patients (n = 202) residing in Hubei Province. The map was created in ArcGIS 10.2 software (ESRI Inc., Redlands, CA, USA) and modified using Adobe illustrator, Version CC2018 (Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA). The source of the base layer shapefile was from the open access platform: National Platform for Common Geospatial Information Services (www.tianditu.gov.cn). The black dots indicate the residential regions of confirmed SFTS patients in this study.