As many as 30,000 cases of lyme disease illnesses are reported each year. For years, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has known that many doctors don’t report every case, and the true number was perhaps much higher. They were right. The number of cases has skyrocketed to nearly 300,000 recently; the illness is 10 times more common than previously thought.
The
new figure comes from
a survey of seven national laboratories, a national patient survey and a review
of insurance information. “It’s giving us a fuller picture and it’s not a
pleasing one,” said Dr. Paul Mead, who oversees CDC’s tracking of lyme disease.
A
total of 96 percent of U.S. Lyme disease cases reported have come from 13
states, predominantly in the Northeast— Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York….To Read More…..
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