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    Map Shows Where in U.S. to Beware of Lyme Disease

    HealthDay – Fri, Feb 3, 2012 11:48 PM EST

    FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Areas in the United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease are pinpointed in a new map created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Lyme disease is one of the most rapidly emerging infectious diseases in North America. It's transferred by ticks and symptoms range from headaches, fever and a rash to arthritis and Bell's palsy, or damage to a facial nerve that can lead to temporary paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face.

    The map shows that high infection risk is confined mainly to the Northeast and upper Midwest. There is a low risk in the South.

    The map shows a clear risk of Lyme disease in large parts of the Northeast (including eastern Pennsylvania) from Maine going as far south as Maryland and northern Virginia.

    The high risk area in the upper Midwest includes most of Wisconsin, a large part of northern Minnesota, and a small piece of northern Illinois.

    The researchers also identified an emerging risk for Lyme disease along the Illinois/Indiana border, the New York/Vermont border, southwestern Michigan, and eastern North Dakota. There's also evidence that Lyme disease is moving into central Virginia.

    The map was created after the most extensive Lyme-related field study ever conducted. The results, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, offer public health and other officials critical information on local risk.

    "There has been a lot of discussion of whether Lyme disease exists outside of the Northeast and the upper Midwest, but our sampling of tick populations at hundreds of sites suggests that any diagnosis of Lyme disease in most of the South should be put in serious doubt, unless it involves someone who has traveled to an area where the disease is common," lead author Dr. Maria Diuk-Wasser, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health, said in a journal news release.

    "We can't completely rule out the existence of Lyme disease in the South, but it appears highly unlikely," she added.

    More information

    The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about Lyme disease.

     
    • scott
      scott  •  Burlington, Vermont  •  3 months ago
      How do you post an article like this with out including the map? seriously get with it.
    • Jason Chenault
      Jason Chenault  •  Beaumont, Texas  •  3 months ago
      If the article has "Map" in the headline, there should be a #$%$ map on the article page.
      • W
        W 3 months ago
        Ha! You would think.
    • Mark
      Mark  •  3 months ago
      Yahoo has crossed the line into being useless. Article about a map and there's no map. Article about photos of the current freeze in the Ukraine and there's one photo. What happened to the online leader of the late 90s?
      • Big Bird
        Big Bird 3 months ago
        they just republish other sites and don't care
      • Unique Material
        Unique Material 3 months ago
        they got bought out
      • AmyN
        AmyN 3 months ago
        http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps/map2010.html I found this map after googling it.
    • Theresa
      Theresa  •  Ithaca, New York  •  3 months ago
      So WHERE is the MAP???? Why bother printing the article without the #$%$ map.
    • Mike
      Mike  •  Seattle, Washington  •  3 months ago
      I'm getting the impression, from reading the article, that the map may be available on CDC's site. I'll check there next. But I think it's stupid for a writer to headline an article about a map they're not going to include in the article, or post a link to. Very unprofessional
      • Carolyn G
        Carolyn G 3 months ago
        It's typical Yahoo. They never include the picture.
    • GaryL
      GaryL  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  3 months ago
      Well, the article is fine, but where's the map?
    • mhm
      mhm  •  3 months ago
      Are we supposed to read this to the visually impaired? Where is the MAP?
    • miff the moler
      miff the moler  •  3 months ago
      Great story about the map. But where, oh where, is the frelling map!
    • jo banks
      jo banks  •  Miami, Florida  •  3 months ago
      Where's the map? Show us the friggin' map?! You write an entire article about the map, but don't even show us the map!!
      • Edd
        Edd 3 months ago
        link http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps/map2010.html
      • Narcissa
        Narcissa 3 months ago
        Haha thanks for expressing my frustration! And the map that guy just posted is from 2010, so this article is referring to a newer one (and not just reported cases, but risk areas).
      • Jon
        Jon 3 months ago
        what map?
    • Flying Spaghetti Monster
      Flying Spaghetti Monster  •  3 months ago
      with Yahoo, you can pretty much guarantee that if the title mentions a picture or map or graphic of any kind, it will be missing from the actual article.
    • RURU
      RURU  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  3 months ago
      Dumb writer.What school did you go to, I want to make sure anyone related to me does not go there. The article is about a map and was referred to 4 times in the content but where is the map or at least a footnote telling where to see the map.
      • dressie24
        dressie24 3 months ago
        you may be safe in the artic
    • gl
      gl  •  Saratoga Springs, New York  •  3 months ago
      Did anyone else here come to see the map? No me either. I just wanted to read about the fact there is one. They need to keep it under lock and key. Dont want the wrong people getting it ....like US!!!
    • halifaxcova
      halifaxcova  •  Charlottesville, Virginia  •  3 months ago
      If anyone finds the map please show it to the rest of us!!
    • Joe
      Joe  •  Manila, Philippines  •  3 months ago
      WHERE IS THE MAP? What's next are you going stop printing pictures and just give written descriptions, oh sorry, you already do that too.
    • Dan from SC
      Dan from SC  •  3 months ago
      ABC and Yahoo had to collaborate on this article to make absolutely sure we weren't able to actually see the map.
    • a
      a  •  Watervliet, New York  •  3 months ago
      where's the link to the map oh great article author?
    • Chris
      Chris  •  Marcellus, Michigan  •  3 months ago
      I'd like to, you know, SEE the map. This is like reading a book that will tell you the secret to success, and then never having it tell you what that secret is...
    • firefly069
      firefly069  •  3 months ago
      Where's the map?! I have Lyme disease & possibly 2 co-infections. It is difficult to diagnose if not caught early and only 1/5 of the people infected develop a rash. They're the lucky ones, that's THE sign to get to your doctor for antibiotics. Figuring out what co-infections you have can be trickier and they also have to be treated. More than a few people diagnosed with MS or Lupus were later found to have Lyme disease. Once they began treatments, they improved and began to recover. This disease is spreading to many other areas of the country, including the west coast and points in between. I hope no one thinks that a disease will say in one place. It isn't just deer ticks that can transmit it; they are finding that mosquitoes, biting flies and other ticks can also, and have, transmit Lyme. Protect yourselves out there. This disease can make your life a living hell and can kill you if not leave you so debilitated you need help to get dressed. It hits each person differently.
    • Kimo
      Kimo  •  Fort Myers, Florida  •  3 months ago
      I really enjoyed perusing the map that was not supplied.
    • The Mad Zak
      The Mad Zak  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      "Map Shows Where in U.S. to Beware of Lyme Disease"....but it is a secret so we are not going to show it to you or post a link to it in this article.
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