Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

  • May 8, 2018
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Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

Tick-borne diseases have been ‘steadily going up every year … as the diseases expand to new areas around the country,’ Lyle Peterson of the CDC told reporters in a recent conference call announcing the updated infection estimates. Lyme disease accounts for about 80 percent of the tick-borne illnesses in the U.S.

Source: npr.org

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