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Tag: spotted fever rickettsioses

Map highlights states as far west as the middle of Texas, north into Nebraska and the Minnesota border, and into New England, as far north as the Maine coast.
Posted inPublic Health

A New Perspective on North Carolina Tick-borne Illnesses

by Yen Duong October 19, 2018September 6, 2022

By Yen Duong Paul Friedheim’s ordeal started in August 2014. “It was a big fat deer tick,” Friedheim said. “We were hiking right on the North Carolina-Virginia border. I’ve pulled so many ticks off me before and I don’t think it was on there too long.” Within a few weeks, Friedheim left school with swollen […]

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