Surge of rare tick-borne disease linked to warming climate

Surge of rare tick-borne disease linked to warming climate

Deer ticks can carry and transmit multiple diseases at once, including babesiosis, Lyme and anaplasmosis. Photo courtesy the US CDC via the Associated Press.In 2023, experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a dramatic rise in babesiosis, a historically rare tick-borne disease, throughout New England. Here in Maine, where babesiosis was not previously considered endemic, incidence of the illness soared a whopping 1,…