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Two men from northwestern Missouri fell ill with a tick-borne disease that scientists had never seen before, according to a report in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
The new ailment was dubbed the Heartland virus after the Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, where the men were treated.
Typically ticks begin to appear in late spring and early summer as warm weather sets in, but this year, cases of the annual pest were reported three to four weeks earlier than normal, said agents with the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.
