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Researchers Urge Caution As Powassan Virus Spreads In Ticks Along Coast
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Researchers Urge Caution As Powassan Virus Spreads In Ticks Along Coast

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A serious tick-borne disease — other than Lyme — has established itself in southern Maine. Researchers from the Maine Medical Research Institute in Scarborough have found the Powassan virus in deer ticks across southern areas of the state. The research was conducted after a midcoast woman died from the disease in 2013. In November of that year, 73-year-old Marilyn Ruth Snow was bitten by a deer tick infected with the Powassan virus. She fell ill almost immediately and died about a month later. Her case was rare: according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, in the ten year period from 2006 to 2015, only 77 cases of Powassan were reported nationwide. Of those, 8 people died. But Snow’s death prompted researchers to find just how prevalent Powassan is here. “We know with Lyme disease, we have rates of infection up to 60 percent in the tick population in certain parts of the state. But for Powassan, it was a real unknown for us,” says Chuck Lubelczyk, a vector ecologist at Maine

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