Make the Diagnosis: More Than a Mosquito Bite

(MedPage Today) -- Case Findings: A 52-year-old man who had returned from an end-of-summer camping trip in Vermont two weeks earlier went to the doctor complaining of a severe headache in the front of his head and a widespread rash of blanching macules. The illness had started a few days earlier with just a mild fever, myalgias, and some loss of appetite. Despite feeling terrible, he joked that his trip was fun, but he ' s pretty sure the mosquito is the unofficial bird of Vermont. What is your diagnosis?
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