Heartland Virus Transmission, Suffolk County, New York, USA

Authors :: Joseph G. Maffei
Laura D. Kramer
Melissa A. Prusinski
Kiet A. Ngo
Alan P. Dupuis
Alexander T. Ciota
P. Bryon Backenson
Scott R. Campbell
Fumiko Ribbe
Michael P. Santoriello
Christopher L. Romano
Cheri A. Koetzner
Stephen M. Rich
Collin O'Connor
Guang Xu
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 27, Iss 12, Pp 3128-3132 (2021), Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2021.
Abstract: During 2018, Heartland virus RNA was detected in an Amblyomma americanum tick removed from a resident of Suffolk County, New York, USA. The persons 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.