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New Research Suggests Few People Get Sick After Bite from Ticks Infected with Powassan Virus
At least 476,000 cases of Lyme disease occur annually, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates, which means at least 476,000 ticks feed on humans long enough to transmit the Borreliaburgdorferi bacteria that causes Lyme. Borrelia …