Archive: https://archive.today/OtwNj From the post: >>A type of Lyme disease caused by a rare bacterium that leads to more severe symptoms has appeared in a US state for the first time, health officials are warning. A resident of Herkimer County, New York, located in the central part of the state, tested positive for Borrelia mayonii last year, according to a new CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Prior to this case, the pathogen had only ever been detected in people in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness typically caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted to humans from the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, also known as the deer tick.