Tick-borne disease -- Israel
In 2017, several cases of relapsing fever in Texas were reported among cave workers. The Israeli equivalent of the disease is in fact known as "cave fever," with most cases reported among tourists in caves. [1,2]
Notably, an American tourist acquired "cave fever" in Israel in 1988. The regional pathogen, _Borrelia persica_ is found in approximately 10 percent of caves and is transmitted by _Ornithodorus tholozani_, an argassid ("soft") tick. The annual incidence has remained fairly stable
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5761531&promed&0
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