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“I didn’t want to get near anything green. It’s like, you can have a really great garden, but it might kill you.”

— Deirdre Dixon, a seasonal resident of Islesboro who was hospitalized with anaplasmosis, a tick-borne bacterial infection. The midcoast island has some of the highest tick-borne illness rates in the state.

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Here’s what it’s like on a Maine island battered by tick-borne diseases . Islesboro has long wrestled with high rates of Lyme disease and is now seeing growing numbers of new illnesses, such as babesiosis and anaplasmosis, that can be harder to detect.

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