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It is transmitted to small- and medium-sized mammals by\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Ixodes scapularis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Ixodes cookei<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and several other\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Ixodes<\/jats:italic>\n                    tick species. Humans become infected with POWV during spillover transmission from the natural transmission cycles. In humans, POWV is the causative agent of a severe neuroinvasive illness with 50% of survivors displaying long-term neurological sequelae. POWV was recognized as a human pathogen in 1958 when a young boy died of severe encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and POWV was isolated from the brain autopsy of this case. Two distinct genetic lineages of POWV are now recognized: POWV (lineage I) and deer tick virus (lineage II). 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