There's a new warning about a rare virus caused by ticks, and it's not Lyme disease. StahlCBS3 reports.
PHILADELPHIA — There’s a new warning about a rare virus caused by ticks, and it’s not Lyme disease. A little boy from Luzerne County is recovering from a life-threatening infection also linked to a tick bite.
She spotted a tick a couple of weeks before Jonny got sick with a headache and high fever. She took him to the doctor but headed to the emergency room when he continued to deteriorate.“Meningitis means the covering of the brain gets inflamed and encephalitis means the brain cells themselves can get inflamed,” Dr. Swathi Gowtham said. “And this virus can cause both.”
In Jonny’s case, doctors decided to try IVIG therapy, an infusion of filtered antibodies from blood donors.
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