After 4 painful years, CNY woman’s mystery illness finally traced to rare tick-borne bacteria

Source: https://www.syracuse.com/

The mysterious fevers first struck Julia Allyn nearly four years ago, when she was a freshman at Colgate University. Her temperature hit 104 degrees, and lymph nodes in her neck swelled so large they cut into her trachea. Her body ached and she was exhausted.

“It was like the flu, but for only four days straight,” recalled Allyn, 22, of Skaneateles. “They would test for strep, they would test for mono, and everything would be negative. We thought it was just some weird virus.”

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