USC Team Leading the Fight against a Tick-Borne Virus (IMAGE)

University of Southern California

USC Team Leading the Fight against a Tick-Borne Virus

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USC Researcher fellow Su-Jiu Park, Korean collaborator professor Young-Ki Choi, USC professor and chair Jae Jung and researcher, Youn ho Choi, made discoveries that could lead to a vaccine preventing a newly discovered virus that causes hemorrhagic fever transmitted by the Asian Longhorned tick, an invasive species new to the United States, before the illness starts spreads. Photographed in their USC lab, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019.

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