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Besides the diseases described above, ticks in different geographic areas may be infected with one or more of the following: Colorado tick fever virus; Mycoplasmas; Powassan encephalitis virus; Q Fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever (Rickettsia); tickborne relapsing fever... Read More »

Chart showing types of ticks, their physical structure and the types of diseases they carry Read More »

Scientists recognize more than a dozen tickborne diseases in the United States and new ones are still being discovered. One tick may carry more than one disease, so sometimes people get more than one co-infection from the bite of a single tick. Read More »

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Ed Breitschwerdt, D.V.M., is professor of medicine and infectious diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine at N.C. State University and adjunct professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He has long studied tick-borne diseases. Recently, however, he found an... Read More »

"They were furious and refused to do a Lyme test. They said, number one, because we don't have Lyme in Georgia. Two, if we did this test we would have to do 500 more." Read More »

The Macon (GA) Telegraph profiles the work of tick expert Alan Smith, of Mercer University, and Liz Schmitz, of the Georgia Lyme Disease Association. Read More »

The incidence of babesiosis, a tick-borne infection often transmitted at the same time as Lyme disease, is rapidly rising in the Cape Cod area. Read More »

The Oregon Lyme Disease Network is embarking on an ambitious project to collect and test ticks throughout their state. Read More »