MDH A woman in her 60s from northern Minnesota has died from a brain infection due to Powassan virus. This is the first death in the state attributed to the disease, known as POW. One ...

Of 819 ticks collected, 33 (4.03%) tested positive for Powassan virus and 752 tested as Powassan negative, using the new triplex method. Thirty-four ticks (4.15%) failed the quality control tick ...

Reconstruction of the dispersal history of Powassan virus lineage 2 viruses inferred by a spatially-explicit phylogeographic analysis. The highly focal distribution of the virus, with rare long ...

Japan’s health ministry on June 23 announced the world’s first infection and fatality from the tick-borne Oz virus. It said a woman in her 70s living in Ibaraki Prefecture just outside Tokyo ...

Some ticks can transmit illnesses to humans, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and even Powassan virus. So ... Other tick-borne illnesses, like southern tick-associated rash ...

Tick-borne encephalitis is “likely” to be present in the UK, health officials have said, after the first domestically acquired case of the virus was confirmed in Yorkshire. The assessment ...