In addition to Lyme disease, which rose from obscurity to become the country's most common vector-borne disease within the span of two decades, black-legged deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) serve as the vector for Anaplasma phagocytophilum—a bacterium that causes a flu-like illness called human granulocytic anaplasmosis
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In addition to Lyme disease, which rose from obscurity to become the country's most common vector-borne disease within the span of two decades, black-legged deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) serve as the vector for Anaplasma phagocytophilum—a bacterium that causes a flu-like illness called human granulocytic anaplasmosis