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Rare tickborne infection in Minnesota woman

By Scott Weese on June 30, 2011
Posted in Other diseases

A Minnesota woman has died of Powassan virus encephalitis, a very rare neurological disease transmitted by ticks. Powassan virus is most often found in parts of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, but there is evidence of it in many other parts of North America as well, and as far away as Russia. Human infections are…

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