Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2021)

Heartland Virus Transmission, Suffolk County, New York, USA

  • Alan P. Dupuis,
  • Melissa A. Prusinski,
  • Collin O’Connor,
  • Joseph G. Maffei,
  • Kiet A. Ngo,
  • Cheri A. Koetzner,
  • Michael P. Santoriello,
  • Christopher L. Romano,
  • Guang Xu,
  • Fumiko Ribbe,
  • Scott R. Campbell,
  • Stephen M. Rich,
  • P. Bryon Backenson,
  • Laura D. Kramer,
  • Alexander T. Ciota

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2712.211426
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 12
pp. 3128 – 3132

Abstract

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During 2018, Heartland virus RNA was detected in an Amblyomma americanum tick removed from a resident of Suffolk County, New York, USA. The person showed seroconversion. Tick surveillance and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) serosurveys showed widespread distribution in Suffolk County, emphasizing a need for disease surveillance anywhere A. americanum ticks are established or emerging.

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