Jane Brody has an interesting article on Babesiosis in the Tuesday, July 31 NY Times.
"Unlike Lyme disease, which quickly leapfrogged across the country, babesiosis is spreading slowly through the Northeast and Upper Midwest, where it is increasingly recognized as the cause of a flulike summer ailment."
The New England Journal of Medicine review upon which Jane Brody based her article appeared in June 2001: Download Nejmra1202018
World-Wide Distribution of Babesiosis (NEJM article June 21, 2008)
Transmission of Babesis (Red Dot) From NEJM article