Other possible ways of becoming infected with Babesia include: 1  receipt of a contaminated blood transfusion (no tests have been licensed yet for donor screening); or. 2  transmission from an infected mother to her baby during pregnancy or delivery.
Urbandale, Iowa. Urbandale is a city in Polk and Dallas counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 39,463. It is part of the Des MoinesâWest Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area. Contents.
Urbandale was incorporated as a city on April 16, 1917. In its early days, Urbandale served as a streetcar suburb of Des Moines with four coal mines. Urbandale served as the end of the Urbandale Line after plans to build a railroad from Des Moines to Woodward were abandoned because of right-of-way issues. The coal mines had closed by the end of the 1940s while streetcar service ended in 1951. In 1920, shortly after the city incorporated, Urbandale had 298 people.