Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Hard tick-borne relapsing fever – USA: (MA) Borrelia miyamotoi

PRO/AH/EDR> Hard tick-borne relapsing fever – USA: (MA) Borrelia miyamotoi

Tick-borne disease -- United States_Borrelia miyamotoi_ is the latest tick-borne disease to hit Cape Cod. As an emergency room nurse, [this nurse] has grown used to seeing patients with symptoms of Lyme disease and a few other tick-borne illnesses. But it wasn't until [he] was hospitalized this month [August 2017] for 4 days that [he], 37 years old, became acquainted with a tick-borne sickness only recently known to infect humans._Borrelia miyamotoi_ was 1st associated with fever in a 2011 report Read more [...]