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 from Russia; a 2013 article
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2wK36R2
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