Since 2015, CIRAD has been studying the tick Hyalomma marginatum , which has been regularly observed along the Mediterranean coast in France. The exact origin of this species, which has been present in Corsica for several decades but has only recently arrived in mainland France, is still unknown. Unlike the species Ixodes ricinus, this tick is not a vector of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. But it can transmit Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, a virus that has not yet been detected in France.
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