{"id":689382,"date":"2026-06-07T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689382\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:25:20","slug":"rare-lyme-disease-strain-is-detected-in-a-new-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689382\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Lyme Disease Strain Is Detected in a New State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        New York has logged its first case of a rare form of Lyme disease previously seen only in the Upper Midwest. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/75\/wr\/mm7521a2.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC report<\/a> says a Herkimer County adult who hadn&#8217;t traveled tested positive last July for Borrelia mayonii, the lesser-known of America&#8217;s two Lyme disease-causing species; the predominant one is Borrelia burgdorferi. A few infected ticks were found on the person&#8217;s property, but more than 1,500 ticks collected from 24 counties in the state turned up no additional signs of the bacteria.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        B. mayonii infections, which have previously been limited to Minnesota and Wisconsin, can bring more nausea, vomiting, neurological issues, and a scattered rash instead of the classic bull&#8217;s-eye. Experts believe the bacteria has likely been in New York for a couple of years but remains confined to a small area, and they expect it to stay rare (it currently accounts for just two of Minnesota&#8217;s roughly 3,000 Lyme disease cases each year). As for how it might have arrived there, tick expert Douglas Norris tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/lyme-disease-rare-type-found-first-time-new-york-symptoms-severe-rcna348491\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> it may have traveled via bird.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; New York has logged its first case of a rare form of Lyme disease previously seen only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[23715,97,33347,2005,9775],"class_list":["post-689382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-health","tag-lyme-disease","tag-new-york","tag-ticks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}