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Tickborne diseases are on the rise, Maine CDC warns
Emily Bader, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine
Fri, September 30, 2022 at 6:39 PM·4 min read
Sep. 30—Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Maine, the state's top public health agency warned Thursday.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news release that so far this year it has recorded nearly 2,000 cases of Lyme disease, an inflammatory disease caused by a bacterium found in infected deer ticks. It's one of the most common vector-borne illnesses — diseases transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected tick, flea or mosquito — with an estimated 30,000 new cases reported annually in the United States, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In its release Tuesday, the Maine CDC said this year it has also recorded nearly 700 cases of anaplasmosis, over 160 cases of babesiosis, 10 cases of hard tick relapsing fever and four cases of Powassan encephalitis.
"This is a record high for Powassan encephalitis cases," the agency said. "Maine is also on track to break records for anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Lyme disease cases this year."
That's not to mention that the peak of tick season in Maine is the fall, Chuck Lubelczyk, an ecologist at the MaineHealth Institute for Research's Vector-borne Disease Laboratory, said Thursday...
Tickborne diseases are on the rise, Maine CDC warns
Emily Bader, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine
Fri, September 30, 2022 at 6:39 PM·4 min read
Sep. 30—Tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Maine, the state's top public health agency warned Thursday.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news release that so far this year it has recorded nearly 2,000 cases of Lyme disease, an inflammatory disease caused by a bacterium found in infected deer ticks. It's one of the most common vector-borne illnesses — diseases transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected tick, flea or mosquito — with an estimated 30,000 new cases reported annually in the United States, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In its release Tuesday, the Maine CDC said this year it has also recorded nearly 700 cases of anaplasmosis, over 160 cases of babesiosis, 10 cases of hard tick relapsing fever and four cases of Powassan encephalitis.
"This is a record high for Powassan encephalitis cases," the agency said. "Maine is also on track to break records for anaplasmosis, babesiosis and Lyme disease cases this year."
That's not to mention that the peak of tick season in Maine is the fall, Chuck Lubelczyk, an ecologist at the MaineHealth Institute for Research's Vector-borne Disease Laboratory, said Thursday...