She is from NC as well. I am not sure if she contracted it here but fell ill last year in Washington DC. It has taken them awhile to figure out what virus caused her encephalitis. Powassan Virus is contracted through tick bite. I sure hope they look for coinfections as well as BB. If they just treat the virus they almost surely will miss out on pieces of the puzzle. For sure they would never come out and say she has multiple things from one tick.
www.greensboro.com/ap/state/virus-spread-by-ticks-cause-of-ex-sen-kay-hagan/article_4380d017-b578-5aad-8763-4b80fe10aa23.html