Ann-OH
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The CDC finally has its surveillance figures for 2005 out for all to see.
"In 2005, 23,305 cases of Lyme disease were reported yielding a national average of 7.9 cases for every 100,000 persons. In the ten states where Lyme disease is most common, the average was 31.6 cases for every 100,000 persons."[CDC]
Again, these numbers probably represent only 1/10th of the actual cases. The actual number could easily be 233,000+.
Truthfinder
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Thanks, Ann. Even the crummy CDC criteria can't stop the numbers from growing every year.
Tracy
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NP40
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WI. with 1400 cases ? Yeah right, just the LLMD's in this state treat that many annually by themselves not to mention all the other cases that are treated.
I personally know of a doc who treats hundreds of cases every year and doesn't even bother to report them to the state anymore. They were constantly asking him if he wasn't sure it was Fibro or CFS or some other disease, so he just stopped reporting.
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northstar
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Re-arranging the numbers: 2005 Incidence per 100,00 (highest to lowest rates)
(pardon the wavy column....it is not your eyes !)
Delaware 76.6 Connecticut 51.6 New Jersey 38.6 Mass 36.5 Pennsylvania 34.5 New York 28.9 Wisconsin 26.4 Maryland 22.1 New Hampshire 20.2 Maine 18.7 Minnesota 17.9 Vermont 8.7 Rhode Island 3.6 Virginia 3.6 West Virginia 3.4 Iowa 3.0 D.C. 1.8 Illinois 1.0 Alaska 0.6 Michigan 0.6 North Carolina 0.6 Wyoming 0.6 California 0.6 Ohio 0.5 Indiana 0.5 North Dakota 0.5 South Carolina 0.5 Missouri 0.3 Florida 0.3 Arizona 0.2 Oregon 0.1 Nevada 0.1 Nebraska 0.1 Kansas 0.1 Kentucky 0.1 Louisiana 0.1 Idaho 0.1 Georgia 0.1 Alabama 0.1 Montana 0.0 Mississippi 0.0 Hawaii 0.0 Colorado 0.0 Arkansas 0.0
Somehow this is not believable....i.e. contiguous states with widely divergent rates.
And none in Co or Ark, etc? 10x0 = 0 So, final projected numbers are lower.
NC has same infection rate as CA.
And why is Michigan so low, when it is similar to Minn & Wisconsin?
Northstar
p.s. Betty, I did cut and paste from Word. Then the columns did not come up , so I used spacer bar to get a good column. When I clicked on "post", I got the mish mash you see.
I just went back to edit.........it shows up just as I had fixed it originally in the Word.....with wavy columns that are better than the posting, but still slightly undulating (sort of like looking through gradient reading glasses).
Yet it still posts as the mish mash with absolutely no column.
Please feel free to cut, fix and post, for a new posting, and then I can delete the mish mash. I cant figure it out. I know there has to be a way, but it eludes me.
N.
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bettyg
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Ann, great info; thanks!
Northstar, this looks interesting but the wave is really tough on the eyes. Any way you could put it in word and use a tab so the numbers all line up under each other showing the significance better? just an idea on behave of ALL our eyes! L0L
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Wow, there is a lot of very interesting information in those numbers!
For example:
1. 26 states reported an increase, 17 a decrease and 8 no change from 2004 ! 2. Across all 50 states & DC, the average number of reported cases was up 12.8% from 2004 ! 3. From 1993 to 2005, 32 states have a statistical trend that shows an increase in reported cases ! 4. From 1993 to 2005, PA has the highest statistical trend of 291 new cases/yr, Mass w/174/yr and NJ with 148/yr !
If anyone is interested I copied the numbers into an excel spreadsheet. PM me w/your email and I'll send it.
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interesting that Montana is listed with no reported cases. i know personally myself and one other person in the same small town!! we are on the forefront of the medical community seeing this as an epidemic Posts: 76 | From Kalispell, Montana | Registered: Dec 2006
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