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State Statistics:

* Reported cases:
Lyme Disease Cases as Reported to the CDC 1980-Current (
3-22-08): 274

Actual Cases:
Using the CDCs own under-reported standard of 10 fold:
2,740

* Oregon Known Fatalities: 2

* 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 Oregon: 

  • Anaplasma marginale

  • Babesiosis

  • Borrelia hermsii- Northern America Relapsing Fever

  • Borrelia parkeri- Western Relapsing Fever

  • Borrelia talaje

  • Colorado Tick fever

  • Ehrlichia equi- Equine Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

  • Epizootic bovine abortion (EBA)

  • Morgellons

  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

  • Tularemia
     

Tick Vectors- Pathogen:

  • Argasidae Ornithodoros coriaceus- Pajahuello tick
      
    Epizootic bovine abortion (EBA)

  • 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

  • Argasidae Ornithodoros talaje
      
    Borrelia talaje

  • Argasidae Otobius megnini- Spinose ear tick

  • Ixodes pacificus- Western blacklegged tick
       Borrelia burgdorferi-Lyme disease
      
    Ehrlichia equi- Equine Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis
      
    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
       Tularemia

  • Ixodes scapularis (formerly Ixodes dammini)- Black-legged tick or Deer tick
       Borrelia burgdorferi- Lyme disease

  • Ixodes spinipalpis

  • Ixodes Dermacentor andersoni- Rocky Mountain wood tick
      
    Colorado Tick fever
      
    Tularemia

  • Ixodes Dermacentor occidentalis- Pacific Coast tick
      
    Anaplasma marginale
      
    Colorado Tick fever
      
    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
       Tularemia

 

Sources:

Identification of the etiologic agent of epizootic bovine abortion in field-collected Ornithodoros coriaceus Koch ticks.
Chen CI, King DP, Blanchard MT, et al. 
Vet Microbiol 2007 Mar 10; 120(3-4):320-7.

Lyme Disease in Oregon.
Doggett JS, Kohlhepp S, Gresbrink R, Metz P, Gleaves C, Gilbert D. 
J Clin Microbiol 2008 Apr 30.
 

Oregon Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention

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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