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Connecticut

Support:

The Greater Hartford Lyme Disease Support and Action Group

State Related Articles:

State lawmakers propose Lyme disease task force


State Statistics:

* Reported cases:
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current (3-22-08):
43,437

Actual Cases:
Using the CDCs own under-reported standard of 10 fold: 434,370

* Connecticut Known Fatalities: 14

* 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 Connecticut: 

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)

  • Babesiosis

  • Babesia microti

  • Ehrlichia chaffeensis- Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis (HME)

  • Morgellons

  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

  • Tularemia
     

Tick Vectors- Pathogen:

  • Ixodes Dermacentor variabilis- American Dog tick or Wood tick
      
    Borrelia burgdorferi- Lyme disease
      
    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

  • Ixodes scapularis (formerly Ixodes dammini)- Black-legged tick or Deer tick
      
    Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)
       Babesia microti
      
    Babesiosis
       Borrelia burgdorferi- Lyme disease
      

Sources:

Lyme disease in CT

Attorney General Chastises DPH

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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