Madison Area Lyme Support Group

One-year-old Gino Pahl has been under sedation in the intensive care unit of a Minnesota hospital for the last week. He’s fighting Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an infection transmitted by a common wood tick.

“It’s so new a lot of the people we meet [at the hospital] say they have never seen a case here,” said Gino’s mother, Shelby Pahl.

The infection is most common across the central U.S. from the Carolinas to Kansas, but it is suspected Gino picked it up in a new development in Buffalo, which also happens to be his backyard.

Click below to watch the story, from KSTP-TV reporter Jessica Miles.

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Another great example that ticks are in places they shouldn’t be spreading diseases they should have.  I predict we will only see more of this.  Doctors need to quit looking at entomology maps to diagnose people. Birds and other animals drop ticks everywhere.

• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/10/first-rmsf-death-in-wisconsin
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/14/rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-rmsf/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/30/rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-can-be-deadly-how-to-prevent-diagnose-treat-it/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/05/13/how-to-co-exist-with-wisconsins-ticks/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/05/asian-longhorned-tick-able-to-transmit-rmsf-in-lab-setting-also-transmitted-within-ticks-through-ova/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/16/new-tick-causes-epidemic-of-rmsf/  RMSF, normally transmitted by the American dog tick and the closely related Rocky Mountain wood tick, has also been spread by the brown dog tick — a completely different species.  And here, we discover it’s been found in the Asian Longhorned tick and is capable of being transmitted within ticks through ova.
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/03/rmsf-rare-in-nj-but-spreading-elsewhere/