{"id":9692,"date":"2025-06-11T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:04:15","slug":"a-rare-tick-borne-disease-has-started-spreading-into-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/11\/a-rare-tick-borne-disease-has-started-spreading-into-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare tick-borne disease has started spreading into Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whro.org\/environment\/2025-06-09\/a-rare-tick-borne-disease-has-started-spreading-into-virginia\">WHRO<\/a> The illness is caused by a parasite, which makes it different from many well-known tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rare disease spread by ticks has slowly established a foothold in Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Babesiosis, a parasitic infection similar to malaria, was traditionally limited to the U.S. Northeast and Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But over the past decade, officials throughout the Mid-Atlantic have noticed an uptick in confirmed cases of the disease. Researchers from Old Dominion University and the Virginia Department of Health&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jme\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/jme\/tjaf054\/8117626?redirectedFrom=fulltext&amp;login=false\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"recently contributed to a study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>recently contributed to a study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;that confirms the regional trend.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"MTf o aklj  k   W tH wr X os\">MTf o aklj  k   W tH wr X os<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHRO The illness is caused by a parasite, which makes it different from many well-known tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme. A rare disease spread by ticks has slowly established a foothold in Virginia. Babesiosis, a parasitic infection similar to malaria, was traditionally limited to the U.S. Northeast and Midwest. But over the past decade, officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9693,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}