If someone claims your state doesn't have Lyme - I would ask: how did these dogs get it then? Most dogs don't travel out of state!
Of course these counts are also low because they only count dogs that were actually taken to the vet by their owners and tested, and depend on local vets being savvy enough to know that they should test.
But cases of Lyme were reported in *all 50 states*. If you mouse over the state -it gives you the actual number of cases.
Hope someone finds this useful.
--------------------------------- Also, link to 2005 Maine study which used cases in dogs to evaluate risk to humans.
Interesting quote about the IDEXX Lyme test for dogs from above article:
"A newly available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (SNAP 3Dx, IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, ME, USA) is used widely by veterinarians ..." [...] "This test has a very high accuracy rate, with 94.4% sensitivity and 99.6% specificity reported"
Linda
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I love it. Thanks!
Yeah, wish OUR ELISA test was that accurate!
Posted by Amanda (Member # 14107) on :
Wow,
Look at that - there were over 4,000 dogs found to have lyme in 7 years.
But, there wasn't more than 800 people in those same years with lyme.
Well, I am so relieved that the ticks in California clearly prefer to infect dogs and mostly leave people alone. They should put that on the Better Business Bureau brochures...