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Springtime Infectious Diseases: From Spring Fever to Lyme Disease

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1007327 (2) A Fares A, “Factors influencing the seasonal patterns of infectious diseases”, Int J Prev Med, vol. 128-32, 2013. (3) Janson, “When Spring Fever Was a Real Disease”, Emergency Medicine News, vol. Online] (14) Meyerhoff, J, “ What is the global prevalence of Lyme disease?

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Chagas Disease

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If you have a GIDEON account, click here to explore our Chagas disease outbreak map. An estimated 8 million people are currently infected with the disease(12). Vector-borne disease transmission is exceedingly rare in the United States, with 28 cases documented between 1955 and 2015 (13). 342-348, 2013.