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Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Lyme Disease — Canada
Winter is coming, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods just yet as far as tick diseases are concerned.
Dr. Richard Rusk, Manitoba’s Medical Officer of Health for Communicable Disease, is advising Manitobans to be mindful of the pests this fall. In the past 2 years, 15 cases of the emerging tick diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis have been reported to Manitoba health, he said.
This year [2016] is only the 2nd year Manitoba Health has been tracking the number of cases of the