‘Not Just Lyme Disease Anymore': 7 New Reasons To Fear Ticks This Summer | CommonHealth

‘Not Just Lyme Disease Anymore': 7 New Reasons To Fear Ticks This Summer | CommonHealth

• lyme
• anaplasmosis 
• babesiosis
• Borrelia miyamotoi
• Powassan (POW) virus

Lone star ticks:

• Ehrlichiosis
• tularemia
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever

anaplasmosis :

suddenly got too sick to get out of bed, as if with a summer flu — fever, sweats and chills, headache. Then he got even sicker. His test results looked dire: protein and bile in his urine; liver function gone haywire; platelets, red and white blood cells down so low that his chart looked like he had leukemia, a doctor told him

Borrelia miyamotoi

first reported in 2013 and causes flu-like feverish illnesses so severe that a recent study found that about one-quarter of patients who tested positive for it had landed in the hospital.

Powassan

It remains exceedingly rare — only about 60 confirmed cases nationwide over the last decade — but, she says, it’s like equine encephalitis in that it “has a predilection for the central nervous system, and it carries a 10 percent mortality rate.”

And unlike anaplasmosis or babesiosis, which respond well to antibiotics, it has no treatment.

In other words, even tick babies [ticks still in the larval stage] are bad. And the period of peak tick vigilance may need to be extended from summer into fall. (Already, some ecologists are calling for heightened tick vigilance in the Northeast earlier in the spring, starting in April.)

Bottom line: If you’re in an area with Lyme ... other infections are likely.