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The samples of ticks were examined for the severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), and blood serum and organs from rodents were subjected for SFTSV, hantavirus, <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Orientia tsutsugamushi<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>O. tsutsugamushi<\/jats:italic>) and <jats:italic>Yersinia pestis<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Y. pestis<\/jats:italic>) screening in the laboratory.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>From 2017 to 2022 in Zhejiang Province, 16,230 parasitic ticks were found in 1848 positive animals, with the density of parasitic ticks of 1.29 ticks per host animal, and a total of 5,201 questing ticks were captured from 1,140,910 meters of vegetation distance with the questing tick density of 0.46 ticks\/flag\u00b7100\u2009m. <jats:italic>Haemaphysalis longicornis<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>H. longicornis<\/jats:italic>) was the major species. A total of 2,187,739 mousetraps were distributed and 12,705 rodents were trapped, with the density of 0.58 per 100 trap-nights. <jats:italic>Rattus norvegicus<\/jats:italic> was the major species. For SFTSV screening, two groups nymphal ticks of <jats:italic>H. longicornis<\/jats:italic> were tested to be positive. For the rodents samples, the <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic> had a positive rate of 12.28% (197\/1604), the hantavirus was 1.00% (16\/1604), and the <jats:italic>O. tsutsugamushi<\/jats:italic> was 0.15% (2\/1332). No positive results were found with SFTSV and <jats:italic>Y. pestis<\/jats:italic> in the rodents samples.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Findings from this study indicated that the ticks and rodents were widely distributed in Zhejiang Province. 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