Anaplasmosis, Lyme Disease -- United States
This summer's [2016] drought failed to reduce the deer tick population -- as some experts had hoped -- and Lyme disease cases have soared this fall, turning 2016 into a possible record-setting year for the disease.
Through [5 Dec 2016], Lyme disease cases were 12 percent higher this year when compared to all of 2015, according to statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
"If any summer drought would have knocked the tick population back, this would have been
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2hNO8yv
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