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Doctor in northern Missouri encounters new tick-borne diseaseBy Blythe Bernharde, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MissouriAugust 31, 2012http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/fitness/doctor-in-northern-missouri-encounters-new-tick-borne-disease/article_7dea8cbd-a5e1-57de-bf93-0071e9132495.htmlor http://goo.gl/smltzFor the second time this summer, Missouri has received national recognition for strange diseases.A report in July described nine people in St. Louis who developed lung worms after eating raw crawfish on float trips. Now, doctors and scientists have discovered a new disease carried by ticks that infected two farmers from the St. ph area.The newly dubbed Heartland virus can cause high fever, chills, body aches, nausea and diarrhea, according to an article published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.The investigative trail

that led to the discovery of the novel disease started when two men, 57 and 67, who lived on large farms came separately to Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. ph in June 2009 complaining of fever, fatigue and a lack of appetite. Neither had a rash, but both men had pulled ticks off their bodies in the previous week.Full story and comments: http://goo.gl/smltzLetters: letters@...A New Phlebovirus Associated with Severe Febrile Illness in MissouriNew England Journal of Medicine 2012; 367:834-841.http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1203378