New Heartland disease spreads in the Midwest


Hey guys and welcome back to my blog post. Today will be current events day! Yay! Mainly what the article is about is the new virus that is affecting the midwest of the USA. It's symptoms are fever and a dangerous drop in the white blood cells. Doctors are testing patients to see if they have that deadly disease. But that's not all, this is not a worldwide epidemic. Scientists are confirming that eight people had this illness. The disease was first noticed back in 2009 when two farmers came to the hospital and reported flu like symptoms. The doctors soon found out that the farmers had the Heartland virus due to the number of tests that they did. Also they found out that the virus is caused by ticks. The doctors then cured another six patients. One of them died, but the rest recovered.

The reason why I chose this article is because I wanted to show you that there is a new disease out there that can cause death. Also, did you know that ticks can spread a wide variety of diseases?


Well see ya later guys.



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