Nepalese worker in his 20s dies from tick-borne disease

This undated file photo shows a tick that could carry a virus of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

HONGSEONG: A Nepalese worker died from a tick-borne disease earlier this week in South Korea's first case of the illness contracted by a man in his 20s, the South Chungcheong provincial government said Tuesday.

The 24-year-old man, who had been working at a livestock farm in Hongseong, a town in South Korea's central province of South Chungcheong, was diagnosed with severe fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome, or SFTS, and treated for the disease before he died on Sunday.