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Recommended: Descriptive epidemiology of lyme disease

Lyme Disease is the most commonly reported vector borne illness in the United States. In a fifteen year span the annual count of lyme disease increased by 101%, in which 93% of all reported cases came from 10 states in the northeast and Midwest (Bacon, Kugeler & Mean). Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans through bitten by infected ticks (CDC data 2013). In the early 1900’s doctors in Europe discovered a disease pattern that created redness and rashes that were associated with tick bites. In the 1970s children in the United States specifically in the region of Lyme, Connecticut were developing these rashes and other symptoms associated with the bacteria found in Europe. The condition was called Lyme disease and the Borrelia burgdorferi that was associated with the new disease was found in the intestines of the vector, the adult deer tick. After the naming of the condition the number of cases increased tremendously. (Bratton, Whiteside, Hovan, Engle & Edwards 2008).
Most people are infected during the spring and summer months. Infected deer ticks bite them that are no bigger than the size of a sesame seed (CDC transmission 2013). The highest numbers of cases reported are in children aged 5 to 14 years and adults aged 50 to 70 (Bratton, Whiteside, Hovan, Engle & Edwards 2008). Children have a greater chance of getting bitten by an infected tick. Being outside and running through brush and wooded areas increase the risk (Bratton, Whiteside, Hovan, Engle & Edwards 2008). The Lyme Disease Association found that 37 % of reported cases were children, or 1,590,449 children affected between 1990-2011. (PR Newswire 2013). Lyme is a debilitating disease especially to children who have th...

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...ugeler, K. J., Mean, P.S. (2008). Surveillance for lyme disease –United States, 1992-2006. Morbidity & mortality weekly report, 57(10), 1-9. http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxygsu-arm1.galileo.usg.edu/eds/detail?sid=130e9714- 4919-41ca-b7c0 ae94c65dacb9%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdm Umc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=c9h&AN=34693908.

Bratton, R. L., Whiteside, J. W., Hovan, M. J., Engle, R. L., Edwards, F. D. (2008). Diagnosis and treatment of lyme disease. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 83(4), 556-571. doi: 10.4065/83.5.566.
Epps, S. C. (2003). Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease in children. Pediatrics Drugs, 5(6), 363-72. Doi: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxygsu- arm1.galileo.usg.edu/eds/detail?sid=ce0f81ad-b290-495c-b638- 42c69b562e36%40sessionmgr4005&vid=1&hid=4111&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzL WxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=mnh&AN=12765486

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