{"id":9712,"date":"2025-06-17T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:55:33","slug":"a-cattle-disease-and-the-tick-carrying-it-are-confirmed-in-iowa-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/17\/a-cattle-disease-and-the-tick-carrying-it-are-confirmed-in-iowa-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A cattle disease and the tick carrying it are confirmed in Iowa for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>OPR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship said the state\u2019s first case of&nbsp;<em>Theileria orientalis<\/em>&nbsp;Ikeda was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iowaagriculture.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Animal%20Health%20Updates%20Memo%206.13.2025_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"confirmed, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;in a cattle herd in Van Buren County in the southeast corner of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protozoan parasite infects the red and white blood cells of cattle, causing anemia and sometimes death. It\u2019s carried by the Asian longhorned tick, which has spread to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tickapp.tamu.edu\/invasive-ticks\/asian-longhorned-tick-situation-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"over 20 states, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over 20 states<\/a>&nbsp;since it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/cattle\/ticks\/asian-longhorned\/asian-longhorned-tick-what-you-need-know\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"first detected, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first detected<\/a>&nbsp;in New Jersey in 2017. Iowa and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cvm.msu.edu\/vdl\/news\/2025\/asian-longhorned-ticks-in-michigan\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Michigan, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan<\/a>&nbsp;are the latest to join the growing list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t had this parasite in Iowa before, that we know of, and we haven&#8217;t had the tick before, and so we&#8217;ve got some pretty susceptible cattle right now,\u201d said Grant Dewell, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach beef veterinarian and associate professor.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"Nss bl\">Nss bl<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPR The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship said the state\u2019s first case of&nbsp;Theileria orientalis&nbsp;Ikeda was&nbsp;confirmed&nbsp;in a cattle herd in Van Buren County in the southeast corner of the state. The protozoan parasite infects the red and white blood cells of cattle, causing anemia and sometimes death. It\u2019s carried by the Asian longhorned tick, [&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-9712","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\/9712","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=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9713,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}