States with high incidence of Lyme

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I found a CDC chart on Lyme disease by state through 2010. Those with the highest incidence were: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Surprising to me is that Florida has a very low incidence, which is a good thing since we're hoping to retire there in about 5 years.

My hubby already pulled a tick off his back the other day and we're thinking it crawled onto our Sheltie Murphy (who runs into the mulch along our fence line trying to get to my neighbor's dog) and then found it's way to my husband.

Best to check yourself and your fur babies every day now through the first frost!
 
This is going to be a very bad year for ticks and other bugs. I saw one drop onto Danny a month ago. Thank goodness I was looking at him. Danny likes to go into our shrubs so I am always checking for ticks. I have gotten a few myself that have fallen off of him but they had not attached themselves to me yet.:eek2: I may limit Danny's walks to pavement only staying away from vegetation.
 
I know three people in Florida with Lyme's disease so it's there. I personally think it's everywhere and very unreported statistics-wise.

The thing with Lyme's is it's so under reported it's hard to know the true statistics. I live in Arkansas, for example, and it's labeled "the natural state" and the state hides how many incidences of Lyme are reported due to fear of attracting less people to the state as a lot of people coming into Arkansas to hike/canoe/etc and that brings in a lot of revenue.

If you're interested in Lyme's, a great documentary to watch is "Under our Skin."
 
We have Lyme in Michigan as well. And, like everywhere else (so it seems) the ticks are rampant this year. An early, warm spring, and a mild winter equals more creepy crawlies of all kinds. We have a lot of deer that come into our yard (and eat all my flowers and vegetable plants :mad:), and I know they're dropping deer ticks all over the place. As my Olive is a very dark tri, finding teensy deer ticks on her is just about impossible. I'm thinking of paving my entire yard :lol:
 
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So far I have been lucky to find only a couple of ticks on my guys and I live in Lyme Conn. .:gaah
 
These stats can be a little ridiculous.
Consider this CDC chart for Lyme in humans-http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/chartstables/incidencebystate.html

If I read this right, RI had 10.9 confirmed cases of Lyme last year per 100,000 population. That would be about 110 cases.
Given that my animal hospital alone averages 3 dogs per week, 2 human cases a week statewide? -Dr. Mac
 
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