06/11/2026
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Until last year, a rare species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease had been found only in the Upper Midwest.
But last June, an Upstate New York resident was diagnosed with Lyme disease caused by that rare bacterium. New York State health department officials descended on their wooded property and found mayonii in 10 ticks. The health department then ran genetic tests on 1,500 ticks that had been collected from 23 other New York counties over the previous five years. None carried the rare bacterium.
No one knows why the rare bacterium suddenly popped up in the center of New York state, nearly 700 miles from its nearest known location in southwestern Michigan.
“That’s a real mystery,” a professor who studies Lyme bacteria said.
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