Researcher says tick-borne disease Borrelia has grown exponentially in Finland
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Domestic ticks now carry even more pathogens
The two new strains of bacteria are however familiar. Jari Hänninen of the University of Turku’s Archipelago Research Institute says the find didn’t come unexpected, as the bacteria were already found in several of Finland’s neighbouring countries.
“One of the Rikettsia diseases is typhus, an epidemic of which brought Napoleon’s army to its knees,” he says.
Rikettsia is transmitted to humans via external parasites like lice, fleas or ticks and are the pathogen responsible for typhus and spotted fever.
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