The Caveats of Estimating Lyme Disease Cases and the Problems with Testing

How Many People Really Are
Effected?

Previously,
I reviewed the various problems regarding the current diagnostics and estimates
of number of people affected by Lyme disease. As far as surveillance, the CDC lists
the limitations of their methods on their website which includes:
under-reporting, lack of state funds to classify and monitor cases, different
times of closing of estimates per year (between the CDC and different states), changes
in case definitions throughout the years, and surveillance by county of
residence, not county of exposure. (So, is it really 300,000?) Due to the fact that
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