Geographically, 96% of the Lyme disease cases have been reported to CDC from the Northeast and upper Midwest parts of the United States. According to the press release by Carmel CA, around 30,000 new cases of Lyme disease are reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by the State health departments alone each year. 34 cases are reported each day.
This statistic only reveals the number of Lyme disease in state departments alone, more cases are reported in other health centers too. The total number of Lyme disease in America from all health centers is more than 300,000 new cases each year.
The CDC is mandated to improve the public health by equally allocating medical resources to the affected people. To help them achieve this goal, CDC embarked on a process of finding the exact number of Lyme diseases cases in the United States. To help them come up with a more accurate data they undertook two major projects.
- Project 1. They collected all the relevant information from the tests conducted in commercial laboratories and the state departments of medicine across different states. The researchers estimated a total of 288,000 cases among the people who took laboratory tests on commercial laboratories.
- Project 2. They estimated the number of diagnosis from the medical claims found in large insurance providers between the year 2005 and 2010. The researchers estimated the number to be 329,000 cases reported annually.
From the study above, the average number of cases that were reported annually was found to be 300,000 cases. This finding represented cases of the American people alone.
References
http://www.ilads.org/lyme/lyme-quickfacts.php
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