AUG 31, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Powassan Virus in the United States: An AI-Integrative One Health Scoping Review of Ecological Drivers, Zoonotic Interactions, Symptom Profiles, and Public Health Implications
Infectious Disease Reports
A scoping review synthesizing surveillance data, published literature, and archival records to characterize an emerging infectious disease threat; descriptive and integrative rather than hypothesis-testing, with no comparative trial or meta-analytic effect size.
Reported
POWV case incidence, pre-2005fewer than two annually
POWV case incidence, 202460
Case fatality rate, neuroinvasive…10–15%