I was not aware of this; from 2021
https://microbiologysociety.org/pub...e-of-an-emerging-zoonotic-infection.html
"Highly endemic countries such as Slovenia, Germany and Austria, the Baltic coastline of southern Sweden, and some Estonian and Finnish islands may record over 100 cases per 100,000 population per year. In 2018, the average recorded incidence for the north-eastern USA ranged from 2.3/100,000 in Massachusetts to 92/100,000 in Maine."
No mention of pheasants.

Pennsylvania had the most cases in 2022 with an incidence of 65/100,000
https://usafacts.org/articles/which...me-disease-and-other-tickborne-diseases/

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