HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) - A potentially deadly infection carried by the same tick that transmits Lyme disease is emerging along parts of the Eastern Seaboard. Public health officials are concerned it may be going undiagnosed in many people.
 

Babesiosis is a parasitic infection carried in mice and other rodents. The disease, carried to humans by ticks, attacks the red blood cells and causes symptoms often mistaken for the flu. Unlike Lyme disease, with its distinctive target-shaped rash, tick bites carrying babesiosis are often undetected. Symptoms appear one to six weeks after a tick bite and can last several weeks or months....
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