MAVS and Thrombocytopenia: Recently, the nucleoprotein of the RNA bunyavirus severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, a tick-borne ssRNA virus from the Phenuiviridae family, has been shown to inhibit MAVS-mediated signalling in HEK293T cells by inducing mitophagy and triggering MAVS degradation, favouring viral replication [77].