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Doctors: Babesiosis, little known tick-borne disease, increasing on Long Island

Doctors say that they have seen an increase in a severe, sometimes fatal tick-borne disease on Long Island. Babesiosis is a not-so-common tick-borne disease caused by parasites that infect red blood

News 12 Staff

Jul 23, 2013, 10:59 PM

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