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Clearfield County site records highest-ever rate of tick-carried virus in US
By MARCUS SCHNECK / PennLive 16 hrs ago
HARRISBURG (TNS) — An infection rate higher than any previously recorded anywhere in the country for “the dangerous and rare” deer tick virus has been found in ticks in a Clearfield County park.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday that its Vector Management Program detected “an unusually high infection rate” deer tick virus — a type of Powassan virus — in samples of adult ticks recently gathered in Lawrence Township Recreational Park near Clearfield.
Transmitted by blacklegged ticks, also called deer ticks, DTV is a type of Powassan virus, which is rare in the U.S. but has been increasing in recent years. It can be transferred from tick to human within 15 minutes of a tick bite and can result in encephalitis or meningitis and hospitalization — and death in about 12% of people with the severe form of the disease.
Other tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, take much longer to cause infection, typically 24 hours or more after the tick attaches to the host...
Clearfield County site records highest-ever rate of tick-carried virus in US
By MARCUS SCHNECK / PennLive 16 hrs ago
HARRISBURG (TNS) — An infection rate higher than any previously recorded anywhere in the country for “the dangerous and rare” deer tick virus has been found in ticks in a Clearfield County park.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday that its Vector Management Program detected “an unusually high infection rate” deer tick virus — a type of Powassan virus — in samples of adult ticks recently gathered in Lawrence Township Recreational Park near Clearfield.
Transmitted by blacklegged ticks, also called deer ticks, DTV is a type of Powassan virus, which is rare in the U.S. but has been increasing in recent years. It can be transferred from tick to human within 15 minutes of a tick bite and can result in encephalitis or meningitis and hospitalization — and death in about 12% of people with the severe form of the disease.
Other tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, take much longer to cause infection, typically 24 hours or more after the tick attaches to the host...