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Potentially fatal tick disease that could cause long-term brain damage in 50% of cases is reported in Maine
Potentially fatal tick disease that could cause long-term brain damage in 50% of cases is reported in Maine
- The CDC reported two cases of Powassan virus, or deer tick virus
- The incidents happened in Maine and two adults were hospitalized in April
- Powassan virus can cause long-term brain damage and memory loss in humans
- Around 15 percent of patients die and 50 percent will have neurological issues
- There have only been 75 cases reported in the US in the past 10 years
There’s another reason to be squeamish of ticks.
Maine is on alert after two people were bitten by ticks and were hospitalized in April after they contracted a potentially-fatal virus.
The Powassan virus, also known as deer tick virus, can cause long-term brain damage in humans.
Around 15 percent of people who contract the virus die and 50 percent of those who survive will have neurological damage, experts claim.
A single bite from the infected insect can transfer the illness to a person within minutes and leave them sick for days.
Although the virus is rare, with only 75 cases reported in the past decade, the recent infections have health officials on guard.
The CDC reported two cases of Powassan virus, or deer tick virus in Maine. The virus can cause long-term brain damage and memory loss in humans. Pictured: A deer tick
Dr Jennifer Lyons, a neurological infections expert at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said the disease is very serious.
She added to CNN: ‘About 15 percent of patients who are infected and have symptoms are not going survive.
‘Of the survivors, at least 50 percent will have long-term neurological damage that is not going to resolve.’
In addition to potentially causing brain damage, Powassan virus can cause fevers, headaches, vomiting, weakness, confusion, seizures and memory loss.
Symptoms can begin anytime from one week to one month after the tick bite.
Although the time period between the bite and infection is officially unknown, it is likely faster than 24 hours, a health official told the Boston Globe in 2013.
Fox News reported the infection time was much quicker – just a matter of minutes
The CDC reports the virus seems to be limited to ticks in the northeastern states and the Great Lakes region.
From 2006 to 2015, a majority of the 75 cases have been reported in New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Massachusetts.
Source: Borreliosis and Associated Diseases Awareness UK
Dr. Kent Holtorf, a Lyme disease expert and medical director of Holtorf Medical Group, said the increasing number of tick-borne illnesses may be linked to warmer temperatures.
He added that the bugs were likely developing mutated diseases because of the weather.
Dr Holtorf said to Fox News: ‘These things are mutating and it’s becoming a scary world out there.’
Powassan virus differs from tick-borne Lyme disease because it isn’t a bacteria and can’t be treated with an antibiotic.
It is much more likely to get Lyme disease from a tick bite than Powassan virus.
There are more than 300,000 people infected with Lyme disease from ticks every year, according to the CDC.
Ticks that transmit Lyme disease can also pass along other viruses, including human granulocytic anaphlasmosis and babesiosis andvirus.
These ticks can also transmit several flaviviruses – which can cause hemorrhaging and inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.
Another potentially fatal tick-borne disease is believed to be the cause of death of a two-year-old girl from Indiana.
Kenley Ratliff passed away in hospital on Tuesday after a suspected case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Doctors still need to carry out a post-mortem to confirm the cause of death, but were treating Kenley for the disease before she passed away.
The illness is caused by a bacteria which enters the body through the bite of an infected tick.
According to the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, the disease affects six in a million people in the US every year and is most commonly caught in the summer months.
While incidents of the illness have spiked in recent years, deaths have fallen, with less than one percent of cases now ending in fatality.
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