An infectious disease caused by babesia parasites, spread through tick bites, causing fever, fatigue, and potentially severe anemia.
From Babesia plus -osis (indicating a medical condition or abnormal state). Similar to babesiasis, -osis is a common suffix in medical terminology for disease states.
As tick populations expand due to climate change, babesiosis cases in the United States have skyrocketed—it's becoming one of the fastest-growing parasitic diseases in developed countries, spread by the same ticks that carry Lyme disease.
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