The Infectious Society of America (IDSA)
Reports that Lyme disease is found in nearly every States. But more than 90 percent of all cases are found in Coastal New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, as well as Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern California.
Center of Disease Control Risk Map of 2004
Ever since Lyme disease has been confirmed nearly every states.
How many cases of Lyme disease?
The Center of Disease Control state that the surveillance for Lyme disease is subject to several limitations and cases are under reported by 6-12 folds and the current degree
of under reporting for national data is unknown.
Source: Center of Disease Control MMWR May 7, 2004 / 53(57); 365-369
CDC Confirmed cases for Lyme disease in 2008
28,921.
Time 6 fold = 173,526 people infected with Lyme disease in 2008
Time 12 fold= 347,052 people infected with Lyme disease in 2008
” The CDC state that Clinicians are reminded that the LD case definition was developed for surveillance purposes and might not be appropriate for clinical management of individual patients.”
Ticks-Transmit Other Diseases.
Besides the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, various ticks in California and in other parts of the US and world transmit other microbial disease agents, such as those causing relapsing fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, Colorado tick fever, babesiosis. human granulocytic anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, Powassan encephalitis and Q fever , . Thus, if a tick is tested for presence of Borrelia burgdorferi and is found to be uninfected, the possibility still exists that it could have been infected with another disease agent.
An another infection and contender found in ticks is Bartonella Spp.
