Rare tick-borne illness making headway in Virginia

Rare tick-borne illness making headway in Virginia

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- As summer calls us outdoors, a crucial health warning emerges from medical experts. While Lyme disease often grabs headlines, a lesser-known but increasingly concerning tick-borne illness, babesiosis, is making its presence felt in Virginia. Babesiosis is caused by a tiny parasite carried by the blacklegged tick or "deer tick" — the same ticks notorious for transmitting Lyme disease. "It is certainly becoming a…