Babesiosis — Worldwide/Unknown
Cape health officials are seeing increases in tick-borne disease this summer [2014], and it’s not just Lyme disease anymore. Cases of the newly emerging illnesses anaplasmosis and babesiosis continue to rise, while a recently discovered disease also transmitted by the bite of a deer tick [_Ixodes scapularis_] — [relapsing fever-like illness due to] _Borrelia miyamotoi_ — has been detected in more than a dozen Cape Codders.
Dr. Laurel Miller, medical director of infectious disease services
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