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"While most reported cases for Lyme Disease are in the Northeast, cases in the Southeast are vastly underreported due to various factors:"



Here is the ABC report on the recent CDC press release:

"Health officials say Lyme disease is about 10 times more common than previously reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says as many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. Previously, the CDC said the number ranged from 20,000 to 30,000. But CDC officials have known that doctors don't report every case, and the true count was probably much higher."

The following comments are from Florida Lyme Disease Association: "While most reported cases for Lyme Disease are in the Northeast, cases in the Southeast are vastly underreported due to various factors:"

"When a doctor thinks a disease is "rare" in a geographic region, it is not on his/her diagnostic radar screen. The failure to timely test for and diagnose Lyme Disease in in its early stage potentially causes millions of patients to needlessly suffer permanent damage and/or a much more difficult to treat, persistent infection."

"Likewise, when citizens of southern states think that Lyme Disease and other tick born infections are "rare", they do not take routine precautions such as performing body checks for ticks on a daily basis, spraying skin and clothing with tick repellant and avoiding tick habitat."

"Florida’s warm, humid climate results in year round tick activity."

"In the Southeast, there are strains of Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease), including two newly discovered strains, not covered by traditional lab tests, which screen for a single strain. Thus, individuals in the Southeast are more likely to obtain false negative lab results."

"The Southeast requires a heightened standard for reporting Lyme Disease cases. Whereas Georgia was the fourth leading state for Lyme Disease cases in 1989, reported cases steeply declined after the change in reporting criteria."