OT: FW: [LymeInfo] [news] Reported Lyme disease cases in Wisconsin on the rise [WI]

[Guest guest]

Sending this for my fellow ‘Lymers’. I get several messages a week from

this group and find the information to be interesting. Maybe one day

doctors won’t write Lyme’s off as a mental aberration. My friends and I

wish those doctors a great big bug bite; once they have this phantom disease

maybe they will sing a different song! El

Ps Lyme’s is on the rise everywhere.

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From: LymeInfo [mailto:LymeInfo ] On Behalf

Of Rick Laferriere

Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:23 AM

LymeInfo

Subject: [LymeInfo] [news] Reported Lyme disease cases in Wisconsin on the

rise [WI]

Reported Lyme disease cases in Wisconsin on the rise

By Jake , Wausau Daily Herald, Wausau, Wisconsin

September 8, 2010

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20100908/WDH0101/9080527/Reported-L

yme-disease-cases-in-Wisconsin-on-the-rise

or http://tinyurl.com/33mqzrb

This summer's warm, wet weather, a migration of bugs from up

north and generally better reporting methods have led to a

surge in Lyme disease across central Wisconsin.

Health departments are reporting spikes in Lyme disease

throughout the state, including in Marathon County where 174

cases of the tick-borne illness were reported this year as

of Tuesday, easily exceeding 2009's 122 total cases, county

data shows.

....

Counties this year are using electronic reporting methods,

making it much easier for laboratories and health care

providers to report Lyme disease.

Full story and comments: http://tinyurl.com/33mqzrb

Letters to the Editor: http://tinyurl.com/l94g47