Babesiosis on the rise - in the news: 3/17/2023

From last Friday, same news, different outlets:

Forbes:

Babesiosis: This Tick-Borne Disease Has Risen In 8 States, CDC Warns

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/03/17/babesiosis-this-tick-borne-disease-has-risen-in-8-states-cdc-warns/

Boston Globe:

Tick-borne disease babesiosis now considered endemic in northern New England

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/19/metro/tick-borne-disease-babesiosis-now-considered-endemic-northern-new-england/

NY Times:

Lyme Isn’t the Only Tick Disease to Worry about in the Northeast, C.D.C Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/health/babesiosis-tick-disease-northeast.html

Fox News:

Rare tick-borne babesiosis disease on the rise in northeastern US, says CDC: Here's why

https://www.foxnews.com/health/rare-tick-borne-babesiosis-disease-on-the-rise-in-northeastern-us-says-cdc-heres-why

USA Today:

What is babesiosis? Cases of this tickborne disease more than double in Northeast.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/03/17/babesiosis-tickborne-disease-symptoms-treatment/11491649002/

Great to see more awareness is happening with Lyme and co-infections. The only thing I would also stress is the emphasis should be on more than the northeast. I live in the south, and unless I was bitten while playing golf once in Boston many years ago, chances are huge that Babesia must have originated in the south with me.

That is unless it started when I was a child living summers in Wyoming and Utah and University of Wyoming and Utah State University. But that was 30 years before I showed any Lyme symptoms.