Washington: Local transmission of anaplasmosis reported in Whatcom County man

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Washington state health officials are reporting the first locally acquired human case of the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis in a Washington resident discovered on August 8. A Whatcom County man in his 80s was hospitalized with severe disease, and is now in recovery, after working in the brush in Mason County where he was likely bitten by [...]

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