Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2023)

Bourbon Virus Transmission, New York, USA

  • Alan P. Dupuis,
  • Melissa A. Prusinski,
  • Collin O’Connor,
  • Joseph G. Maffei,
  • Cheri A. Koetzner,
  • Tela E. Zembsch,
  • Steven D. Zink,
  • Alexis L. White,
  • 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/eid2901.220283
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 1
pp. 145 – 148

Abstract

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In July 2019, Bourbon virus RNA was detected in an Amblyomma americanum tick removed from a resident of Long Island, New York, USA. Tick infection and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) serosurvey results demonstrate active transmission in New York, especially Suffolk County, emphasizing a need for surveillance anywhere A. americanum ticks are reported.

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