----- Lyme Disease Reported to CDC by State Health Department, 1982-1998: In 1998 21 cases of Lyme disease were reported for Oregon.
CDC: Reported Cases of Lyme Disease, by State, 1989-1998, August 1999 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/Ldss2_aug99.htm Oregon has reported 156 Lyme disease cases from 1982 to 1997. CDC: Lyme disease cases reported by State Health Departments, 1982-1997 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/ld82_97.pdf Including the 11 cases so far for 1999, the grand total of CDC reported Lyme disease for Oregon, for the years 1982-1999, is 188 cases. In 1998 the state of Oregon ranked 21st for incidence of Lyme disease with 0.67 cases per 100 thousand population. [Editorial comment: These numbers are likely "the tip of the iceberg".] ********************* ----- Lyme Disease Reported to CDC by State Health Department, 1982-1998: In 1998 7 cases of Lyme disease were reported for Washington. CDC: Reported Cases of Lyme Disease, by State, 1989-1998, August 1999 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/Ldss2_aug99.htm Washington has reported 153 Lyme disease cases from 1982 to 1997. CDC: Lyme disease cases reported by State Health Departments, 1982-1997 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/ld82_97.pdf Including the 7 cases so far for 1999, the grand total of CDC reported Lyme disease for Washington, for the years 1982-1999, is 167 cases. [Editorial comment: These numbers are likely "the tip of the iceberg".] **************************** ************************** In British Columbia, over the past few years, a large number of ticks have been collected from the southern part of the province and examined at the provincial laboratory in Vancouver. The organism which causes Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) has been found in ticks collected from all areas so far checked, including Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, the Lower Mainland including the Fraser Valley, and the Sechelt Peninsula. Further studies are being conducted on ticks from other parts of the province. To date in British Columbia there have been about 30 confirmed cases of Lyme Disease. Of these, eight cases (central Interior, southern Okanagan, south-eastern B.C., Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland and the Gulf Islands as far north as Cortez Island) had no record of travel outside of the province, and are considered to have contracted the disease in B.C. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
