Powassan

The Powassan virus has killed one person in the US.The Powassan virus can also lead to life-threatening diseases like brain infection or encephalitis and brain and spinal cord infection or meningitis. After the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked…

Hotspots for a rare tick-borne disease that kills up to one in ten sufferers have been revealed for the first time.A study by the Yale School of Public Health found that Powassan virus, dubbed 'Lyme disease's deadly cousin', is being…

Connecticut woman in her 90s dies after testing positive for rare tick-borne Powassan virus one month after being bittenWoman was in her 90s and in New London county which borders Rhode IslandHealth chiefs said she was admitted…

Maine man is killed after tick bite gave him rare and incurable virus that triggered horrific brain infectionA man in Maine has died from the rare Powassan virus - which he is believed to have contracted from the tick biteThe…