Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0715091222.htm
Black-Legged Ticks Linked to Encephalitis in New York State
July 15, 2013 ? The number of tick-borne illnesses reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the rise. Lyme disease leads the pack, with some 35,000 cases reported annually. In the Northeast, the black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) that spread Lyme disease also infect people with other maladies, among them anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and -- as a new paper in the journal Parasites and Vectors reports -- Powassan encephalitis...
...Journal Reference:
Alan P Dupuis Ii, Ryan J Peters, Melissa a Prusinski, Richard C Falco, Richard S Ostfeld and Laura D Kramer. Isolation of deer tick virus (Powassan virus, lineage II) from Ixodes scapularis and detection of antibody in vertebrate hosts sampled in the Hudson Valley, New York State. Parasites and Vectors, 2013 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-185
Black-Legged Ticks Linked to Encephalitis in New York State
July 15, 2013 ? The number of tick-borne illnesses reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the rise. Lyme disease leads the pack, with some 35,000 cases reported annually. In the Northeast, the black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) that spread Lyme disease also infect people with other maladies, among them anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and -- as a new paper in the journal Parasites and Vectors reports -- Powassan encephalitis...
...Journal Reference:
Alan P Dupuis Ii, Ryan J Peters, Melissa a Prusinski, Richard C Falco, Richard S Ostfeld and Laura D Kramer. Isolation of deer tick virus (Powassan virus, lineage II) from Ixodes scapularis and detection of antibody in vertebrate hosts sampled in the Hudson Valley, New York State. Parasites and Vectors, 2013 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-185
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