Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever: Deadly tickborne virus that’s spreading in Europe ‘likely to reach UK’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/virus-uk-crimean-congo-hemorrhagic-fever-b2375926.html

#Ticks
#CrimeanCongoHaemorrhagicFever
#CCHF
#TickBorneIllness
#TickBorneVirus
#ClimateChange
#WHO

New study from Ontario and Quebec which isolated pathogens causing tick-borne illness from ticks and small mammals. Results: plenty of Lyme (Borrelia burgdorferi) and some Babesia. A surprise: some samples positive for Rickettsia rickettsia, the agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is not supposed to occur this far north!

Tick-borne illness was once rare in Canada and is now becoming common, largely as a result of #climatechange. #Lyme #tickborneillness
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/vbz.2022.0036