PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 29, 2021
One person in Maine has contracted the Powassan virus, a rare tickborne disease, and the first case in the state this year. The Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a Waldo County resident was hospitalized for the virus, and is now recovering at home. Humans become infected with Powassan through the bite of an infected deer tick or woodchuck tick. Deer ticks also transmit Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and other diseases.