Anaplasmosis -- Norway
Norway is home to roughly 5 million people and nearly a million sheep. Sheep, which wander freely in the Norwegian forests and mountains in the summer, can be infected by _Anaplasma phagocytophilum_, a bacterium carried by ticks that can also infect humans and cattle.
Medical researchers have previously described the tick-borne infection caused by _A. phagocytophilum_ as the most widespread tick-borne infection in animals in Europe.
But its prevalence in Norway in humans is so poorly
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