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Hello, our local duck said that he has been told that there is no Lyme in Indiana. He is absolutely shocked that 4 of his patients have tested positive in the last year.
I personally know of at lease 7 confirmed cases here in southern Indiana within the last 2 years.
I was wondering how many of us there are in Indiana.
I tried to check the CDC for figures but the link I found did not work. I know their figures are off anyway.
Just curious. Thanks! SC
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I just find it amazing that these doctor's would make such a statement...No Lyme in Indiana...do they have the inside track on the ticks when they land after being transported from state to state... Is there is net over the state of Indiana to prevent them from coming in. AMAZING
We had a doctor tell us that here in Florida...I said to him - is there a sign at the state line that says no ticks are allowed?
I lived in NW Indiana in the early 60's. Now I honestly don't know if I got lyme in Indiana or Michigan (a summer vacation to Michigan). I got it in 1963 (Sept). I had to move to Maryland to get a diagnosis...in 2001...from a fibro/lyme doc. Two previous docs mentioned it (in Louisiana) but the testing was so poor that I never got a true diagnosis....just that I had been exposed to lyme and as we all know now.....expose=lyme.
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I too don't know where I was infected with Lyme. For all I know it could have been on the many summers I spent in Culver, Indiana (near South Bend).
It's crazy to state there's no Lyme Disease in a certain area!!!! Nowadays people travel and we know that Lyme can be sexually transmitted. So even if there were no infected ticks in the area (which I don't think is the case). Lyme could be spreading through other means.
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Hi SC, Indiana has been running 21 to 23 reported cases per year since 2000.
With the CDC saying that Lyme disease is so underdiagnosed and underreported that the number of cases is actually 6 to 10 times as many as the numbers the CDC gives out, that would mean that you have around 210 to 230 per year.
I know quite a few people who have Lyme who live in Indiana. Go to "search" and plug in Indiana and you will get what has been said here about Lyme in Indiana.
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