Lyme disease: impact of the CDC surveillance criteria on patients.(Townsend's New York Observer)(Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

My first Townsend column about Lyme disease (April 2004) opened with a startling fact: this tick-transmitted infection is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the US. According to recent CDC statistics, Lyme cases constitute 95% of all reports for such diseases. (1) The remaining 5% includes the mosquito-transmitted West Nile Virus, sensationally publicized but by no measure affecting as many Americans as Lyme.

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