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Ticks, the diseases they carry, and the data behind every claim.

Seventeen species. Twenty-one reportable diseases. Three thousand counties of CDC surveillance. Tickpedia stitches them together so you can see where and when and how much — not just that ticks live in the woods.

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Lyme disease
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection (Borrelia burgdorferi) spread by black-legged ticks and the most common tick-borne illness in the US.
rank #1
Anaplasmosis
Anaplasmosis is a bacterial infection (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) spread by black-legged ticks across the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Pacific Coast.
rank #2
Spotted fever rickettsiosis
Spotted fever rickettsiosis is a group of bacterial infections — Rocky Mountain spotted fever among them — spread by dog and wood ticks across the US.
rank #3
Babesiosis
Babesiosis is a malaria-like parasitic infection of red blood cells (Babesia microti) carried by black-legged ticks in the Northeast and Upper Midwest.
rank #4
Ehrlichia chaffeensis ehrlichiosis
Ehrlichia chaffeensis ehrlichiosis is a bacterial infection of white blood cells spread by lone star ticks across the Southeast and south-central US.
rank #5

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CDC's mandatory case reporting registers roughly 30,000 to 40,000 Lyme disease cases per year. Analysis of commercial insurance claims by Kugeler and colleagues estimated 476,000 patients diagnosed and treated for Lyme each year between 2010 and 2018 - about an order of magnitude higher. Most diagnoses never reach the surveillance system.

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