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The blood-sucking parasites were discovered in several apartments and the laundry room in the building on West 61st Street on the Upper West Side. Source: ABC7 New York

The anaplasmosis bacteria are carried by the same tick that spreads Lyme disease. Source: TODAY.com

The most active West Nile season in at least half a decade – maybe even more than a decade – is how the director of Richland County Vector Control describes 2017 in her county. Source: Chad Mills

A single case of locally transmitted Zika virus has been confirmed on Florida’s west coast, according to the state’s health department. Source: ABC News

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish have found rabies in a bobcat near Lordsburg. Officials want pet and livestock owners in Hidalgo County to make sure their dogs, cats, horses and other livestock are vaccinated against rabies. Source: KFOX

News from around the web. Source: SI.com

This pesky raccoon wanted to move on up to the West Side. The animal crept into a eighth-floor apartment of a ritzy Upper West Side building through an open window Tuesday morning, startling a woman inside who was babysitting two young kids, the building doorman told The Post. Source: New York Post

Homeowners in the D.C. area are noticing a spike in the stink bugs popping up in their homes. Here’s how to deal with the uninvited guests. Source: WTOP

Several Western New York drivers have found some unwanted passengers in their cars.  With cold weather coming, spiders have been making their homes in cars across the region, and Phil Basinski, owner of Sweeny’s garage in the Town of Tonawanda says drivers want nothing to do with their eight legged co-pilots. Source: WKBW

There is a possible bedbug infestation at a St. Augustine Beach hotel and a former guest spoke exclusively to Action News Jax after sending us video of the bugs crawling in her sheets. Source: WJAX