Once called Nantucket fever, the tick-borne illness babesios is spreading from the Northeast into the Midwest. A clinical trial starts this month to see if an anti- malaria drug can treat the disease.
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They sent her home with antibiotics. But a few days later her doctor called to tell her a blood test showed she actually had a different tick-borne illness – babesiosis. When LeBlanc went to the hospital for testing after taking the drug, the doctors began to document a significant decline in the parasite within a few weeks. “It went down and down, and then it was not even found in my system,” she says. And she started to feel much better, “I was elated,” LeBlanc says.
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