Roughly 95 percent of confirmed Lyme disease cases in the United States are reported from 14 high-incidence states clustered in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and upper Midwest. The geography matches the range of Ixodes scapularis and the white-footed mouse - the disease is genuinely concentrated, not just better surveilled there.
CDC's mandatory case reporting registers roughly 30,000 to 40,000 Lyme disease cases per year. Analysis of commercial insurance claims by…
Field studies in the northeastern United States routinely find a single white-footed mouse carrying dozens of attached Ixodes scapularis…
Reported United States Powassan virus cases rose from a handful per year through the 1990s to roughly 30 to 50 per year by the early…
Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where in 1975 two mothers - Polly Murray and Judith Mensch - logged a cluster of…
Despite expanding overlap with Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) does not transmit…
Ixodes scapularis takes three blood meals over a roughly two-year life cycle. Larvae and nymphs feed mainly on white-footed mice and other…