RT Journal
A1 Kuehn BM
T1 EMerging tick-borne diseases expand range along with rebounding deer populations
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD January 9
VO 309
IS 2
SP 124
OP 125
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.116881
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.116881
AB 
Lyme disease remains the most common tickborne illness in the United States, with about 20 000 to 30 000 cases identified each year. But babesiosis, which is caused by the protozoan parasite Babesia microti, has received renewed attention as its range has expanded. Once known as “Nantucket fever” because it was common among individuals living—along with a robust population of deer, a key vector—on that New England coastal island, it is now considered endemic in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.