State Statistics:                                                                                                          Iowa

  

 Home

 About Us

 The Memorial Park

 The Buried Truth

 In Memory Of

 Articles

 Fatality Citations

 Autopsy Reports

 National Statistics

 State Statistics

 Become a Member

 In the News

 Our Physicians

 Educational Links

 Comments

 Contact Us

Support:
Iowa
Iowa Lyme Disease Association

Iowa Lyme Disease Network

State Related Articles:
A time for Lyme

Diagnosis of Lyme disease often can be elusive

Iowa Remembers...


State Statistics:

* Reported cases:
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current (
02-07-10): 972

Actual Cases:
Using the CDCs own under-reported standard of 10 fold:
9,720

* 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.

* At least a dozen species of ticks occur in Iowa.

 

Other Vector and Tickborne diseases found in Iowa: 

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum- Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis (HGA)
     
  • Bartonella henselae- Cat Scratch Fever
     
  • Ehrlichia chaffeensis- Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis (HME)
     
  • Francisella tularensis- Tularemia
     
  • Morgellons
     
  • Rickettsia Coxiella burnetii- Query Fever (Q Fever)
     
  • Rickettsia rickettsii- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
     

Tick Vectors- Pathogen: 

  • Amblyomma americanum- Lone Star tick
       Ehrlichia chaffeensis- Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis (HME)
       Francisella tularensis- Tularemia
       Rickettsia rickettsii- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
      
  • Argasidae Carios kelleyi (formerly Ornithodoros kelleyi)- Bat tick
      
    Bartonella henselae- Cat Scratch Fever
      
    Borrelia (unidentified species)
      
    Rickettsia (unidentified species)
     
  • Ixodes scapularis (formerly Ixodes dammini)- Black-legged tick, Deer tick or Bear tick
       Borrelia
    burgdorferi- Lyme disease
     
  • Ixodes Dermacentor variabilis- American Dog tick, Eastern Wood tick or Wood tick
      
    Francisella tularensis- Tularemia
      
    Rickettsia rickettsii- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 


Sources:

Novel relapsing fever spirochete in bat tick.
Gill JS, Ullmann AJ, Loftis AD, Schwan TG, Raffel SJ, Schrumpf ME, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis 2008 Mar.

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
 

 

 

 

                                
                                  © 2006 The National Lyme Disease Memorial Park Project