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“Reported Cases of Lyme Disease Climb Again to a Record
High in 2000” Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN) (www.timesfreepress.com)
(02/28/02) P. E8
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recorded an 8 percent increase in Lyme disease infections between 1999 and 2000,
for a total of 17,730 cases. Cases were
recorded in 44 states and the District of Columbia, but 95 percent were
reported in a dozen, mostly northeastern, states. The CDC attributes the rise in the number of cases in part to the
increase in Americans who built homes in wooded regions, thus exposing
themselves to ticks, during the 1990s.
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