Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Lyme Disease -- United States
Reported cases of a tick-borne disease are swelling in Maine this year [2017], but it's not Lyme disease. Cases of anaplasmosis, an illness with flu-like symptoms that are similar to Lyme but typically more severe, have jumped from 52 a year in Maine 5 years ago to 433 this year, through [24 Oct 2017], according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Of this year's 433 cases, 113 were hospitalized, according to Maine CDC statistics.
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