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(LEHIGH VALLEY LIVE) -- Another illness transmitted by ticks is spreading around Pennsylvania, state officials announced.
It’s called Deer Tick Virus and is a type of Powassan virus. DTV is considered “rare but dangerous,” officials said in a news release Tuesday that indicated the illness had been found in 15 Pennsylvania counties. By week’s end, that count was up to 16, including one contiguous to the Lehigh Valley.
As with Lyme disease, another tickborne illness, there is no vaccine to prevent the transmission of DTV in humans. Nor is there a medicine to treat it. (Lyme disease can be treated early through antibiotics.) That leaves caution and prevention as the best steps to avoid falling victim.
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