Powassan virus — United States
When a Maine woman died suddenly in 2013 after a tick bite, the state went on alert against the dangerous virus that claimed her life.
A Rockland-area artist fell ill almost immediately after finding a tick stubbornly embedded in her shoulder that November [2013]. She died just weeks later.
At the time, Powassan virus hadn’t been documented in Maine in nearly a decade. Much rarer than Lyme disease, but transmitted more quickly and potentially more devastating, Powassan had appeared in
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