Lyme Disease Spreading to New Areas, Says CDC

The Background and What We Know about the disease

Everyone should know what Lyme disease is or at the very least have an idea of the bugs that might spread it to you.

Usually, when you get bitten by a troublesome bug, you feel like you may have a fever, but with an accompanying rash. The untreated disease can wreak havoc on your body. However there is a slight chance you run the risk of developing Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome, no one really knows what causes this but guesses go to lingering damage to your tissue and immune system may be a contributing factor.

According to data from CDC monitoring, Lyme disease has really only been abundant in the Great Lakes area and the upper New England area. But it has seen a case or small smattering in other regions in the U.S. So you’re not entirely risk free.

The Bad News about Lyme disease.

Since the topic of geography is at hand, now is a good time to mention that the CDC has released a report available online now, and later in print in August. The report that says Lyme disease is spreading. The monitoring of the disease has been observed in a nine-year time period of the number of cases across the U.S.

In those years of observations, the high concentration of cases in the New England have risen an unbelievable number of 320%. That is a radical increase and when you observe how much the percentage increases in the nine year period it’s less shocking but still baffling to see it rise.

The Great Lakes are was not as high a percentile as the New England area but it was still really high with its number of an estimation of 250% rise in incidents with Lyme Disease.

The two high concentration areas spell trouble for residents and others worldwide

Not only is the concentration rising in those hot spots in the U.S., there is some movement outside of the areas that suggest spreading due to the conditions existing at that time that may help the ticks survive in the geographical area. So, the CDC says measures must be taken to prevent a severe Lyme disease epidemic.


 

 

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