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Arizona

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State Statistics:

* Reported cases:
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current (3-22-08): 5
9

Actual Cases:
Using the CDCs own under-reported standard of 10 fold:
590

* Arizona Known Fatalities: 5

* In the United States, requirements for reporting diseases are mandated by state laws or regulations, and the list of reportable diseases in each state differs.

 

Other Vector and Tickborne diseases found in Arizona: 

  • Anaplasma marginale

  • Anaplasma ovis

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)

  • Borrelia hermsii- Northern America Relapsing Fever

  • Borrelia parkeri- Western Relapsing Fever

  • Brucellosis

  • Colorado Tick Fever

  • Leptospirosis

  • Morgellons

  • Powassan Encephalitis

  • Query Fever

  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

  • Tick Paralysis

  • Tularemia

  • Typhus

  • West Nile Virus
     

Tick Vectors- Pathogen:

  • Argasidae sanchezi- Adobe tick or Fowl tick

  • Argasidae Carios kelleyi (formerly Ornithodoros kelleyi)- Bat tick

  • Argasidae Carios rossi

  • Argasidae Carios stageri

  • Argasidae Carios yumatensis

  • Argasidae Ornithodoros hermsi- Relapsing Fever tick
      
    Borrelia hermsii- Northern America Relapsing Fever

  • Argasidae Ornithodoros parkeri- O. parkeri or Cooley tick
      
    Borrelia parkeri- Western Relapsing Fever

  • Ixodes pacificus- Western Black-legged tick
       Borrelia burgdorferi- Lyme disease

  • Ixodes Dermacentor andersoni- Rocky Mountain Wood tick
      
    Anaplasma marginale
      
    Anaplasma ovis
      
    Colorado Tick Fever
      
    Powassan Encephalitis
      
    Query Fever
      
    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
       Tick Paralysis
       Tularemia

  • Rhipicephalus sanguineus- Brown Dog tick
      
    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
       Tick Paralysis


Sources:

Vector-Borne Diseases

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

http://lyme.org/resources/1980-cumulative.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047449.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5353a1.htm

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/htm/bc/tzns01.htm

http://www.lymeinfo.net/coinfections.html

 

 

                                
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