A Connecticut woman has died of the Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) reported Tuesday evening.
The woman, between the ages of 90 to 99, was the first person in the state to die from the rare Powassan virus this season, an illness that is typically transmitted to humans when an infected deer tick, groundhog tick or squirrel tick bites a person and passes it onto them.
