Heartland Virus Transmission, Suffolk County, New York, USA

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 3128 - 3132
• Main Authors: Dupuis, 2nd, Alan P, Prusinski, Melissa A, O'Connor, Collin, Maffei, Joseph G, Ngo, Kiet A, Koetzner, Cheri A, Santoriello, Michael P, Romano, Christopher L, Xu, Guang, Ribbe, Fumiko, Campbell, Scott R, Rich, Stephen M, Backenson, P Bryon, Kramer, Laura D, Ciota, Alexander T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.12.2021; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adults; Animals; arboviruses; Bunyaviruses; Causes of; Deer; Disease control; Disease prevention; Disease transmission; Dispatch; Distribution; Genetic aspects; Genomics; Health aspects; Health services; Health surveillance; Heartland virus; Heartland Virus Transmission, Suffolk County, New York, USA; HRTV; Humans; Identification and classification; Mammals; New York - epidemiology; Pathogens; Patients; Phlebovirus; Public health; Risk factors; RNA virus infections; Tick-borne diseases; Ticks; Viruses; White-tailed deer; New York; United States; Long Island New York; United States > US; Massachusetts; Tennessee; Missouri; New York; viruses; United States; ticks; lone star tick; white-tailed deer; zoonoses; Suffolk County; HRTV; Heartland virus; transmission; vector-borne infections; arboviruses; Amblyomma americanum; surveillance
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2712.211426

During 2018, Heartland virus RNA was detected in an Amblyomma americanum tick removed from a resident of Suffolk County, New York, USA. The person showed seroconversion. Tick surveillance and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) serosurveys showed widespread distribution in Suffolk County, emphasizing a need for disease surveillance anywhere A. americanum ticks are established or emerging.