Babesia microti causes death of elderly woman

Tourists visiting the United States contract Babesia, leaving one dead

The first case involved a 50-year-old woman, who was admitted to the hospital in South Korea with a fever, abdominal pain, and nausea. She had visited a forest in New Jersey four weeks earlier and had reportedly developed an erythematous lesion on her lower right calf. Two days later she developed headaches, myalgia, fever and […]

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