[pct-l] ticks-incidence of Lyme disease.

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At 01:16 PM 2/27/2004 -0800, Joanne Lennox wrote:
>I am interested in finding out what the incidence of Lyme disease is on
>various parts of the PCT.

I tried to answer the same question recently. California doesn't have much 
concrete information on the topic, but larger metropolitan areas of 
California do. However, none of the those metropolitan areas are coincident 
to much of the PCT. The CDC has a lot of great information, but handles the 
problem on a national scale.

A map showing risk by state:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/riskmap.htm

A map showing where the cases of lyme disease occurred in 200:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/Lyme_map_2000.htm

Some good lyme disease Q&A:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/qa.htm

A report on lyme disease in which CA is not even mentioned:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4807a1.htm

The tick has to be on you for more than 24 hours to pass enough bacteria to 
cause the disease. Doing a tick check in the morning in evening may be a 
good idea.

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