In a tragic, freak incident, a woman has become the very first person in the state of Missouri to contract a disease passed on by ticks known as the Bourbon virus – and the fifth known, confirmed case of this virus all around the world since its discovery in 2014. When Tamela Wilson removed two …
Lyme disease is not the only disease you can get from a tick, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). It was just last year when a farmer from Bourbon County, Kansas died from an unknown pathogen he contracted from a tick. The virus is now being called the Bourbon virus, and Dr. Dana …
Back in 2014, a farmer from Bourbon County, Kansas developed a high fever. He also had a rash and was nauseous. At the hospital, he told doctors that he had been bitten by several ticks. Everyone then assumed he had Lyme disease. But his blood work didn’t show any signs of Lyme disease. The results …