A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

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By Zoya TeirsteinJul 5, 2022, 10:15 am252 pts
In early May, a woman in her 90s was hospitalized in Connecticut with a strange assortment of symptoms: confusion, nausea, chest pain, chills, and fever. Two weeks later, on May 17, she died. The culprit was a blacklegged tick, a minuscule arachnid about the size of a sesame seed when fully grown. Blacklegged…

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