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Lyme disease isn’t the only tick-borne illness. Anaplasmosis is on the rise: doctors

A new paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal urges doctors to consider anaplasmosis as a possible diagnosis for patients with unexplained fever as tick-borne illnesses rise in eastern Canada.  Senior author Dr. Michael Quon, an internal medicine specialist at The Ottawa Hospital, and his colleagues described the case of a 79-year-old man who had a fever, chills and generalized weakness that caused him to fall last summer.  Although the patient didn’t remember having a tick bite, he lived in a rural area in eastern Ontario where tick-borne disease is endemic and often spent time in the woods.  In…

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