New York 2008 Lyme Disease Confirmed And Probable Cases
doratr on May 29th, 2009
Department of health in New York -Lyme Disease*
About 10% of the blog readers are New-Yorkers. Get some facts of the Lyme Disease cases in the big apple published by the department of health in New-York. Read more facts and get details of the geographical distribution of Lyme disease all over the world.
| County | Confirmed | Probable | Total Footnotes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albany | 564 | 74 | 638 |
| Allegany | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Broome | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| Cattaraugus | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Chautauqua | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Chenango | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Clinton | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Columbia | 429 | 155 | 584 |
| Cortland | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Delaware | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Dutchess | 722 | 419 | 1141 |
| Erie | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| Essex | 22 | 2 | 24 |
| Franklin | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Fulton | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Genesee | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Greene | 246 | 67 | 313 |
| Herkimer | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| Jefferson | 34 | 3 | 37 |
| Lewis | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Livingston | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Madison | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| Monroe | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| Montgomery | 17 | 8 | 25 |
| Nassau | 40 | 0 | 40 |
| Niagara | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Oneida | 25 | 1 | 26 |
| Onondaga | 46 | 21 | 67 |
| Ontario | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Orange | 336 | 60 | 396 |
| Orleans | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oswego | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Otsego | 12 | 2 | 14 |
| Putnam | 119 | 83 | 202 |
| Rensselaer | 436 | 106 | 542 |
| Rockland | 243 | 110 | 353 |
| Saratoga | 270 | 94 | 364 |
| Schenectady | 77 | 16 | 93 |
| Schoharie | 20 | 3 | 23 |
| Schuyler | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| St Lawrence | 24 | 1 | 25 |
| Steuben | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Suffolk | 350 | 192 | 542 |
| Sullivan | 103 | 15 | 118 |
| Tioga | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tompkins | 38 | 4 | 42 |
| Ulster | 565 | 213 | 778 |
| Warren | 17 | 3 | 20 |
| Washington | 172 | 11 | 183 |
| Wayne | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Westchester | 172 | 92 | 264 |
| Total | 5,203 | 1,783 | 6,986 |
* Provisional data
** Excluding New York City, counties with no confirmed or probable cases in 2008 include Cayuga, Chemung, Hamilton, Seneca, Wyoming, and Yates
*** US Centers for Disease Control Lyme Disease case definition was changed for 2008 creating an additional category for probable cases
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Symptoms – Lyme disease
doratr on March 5th, 2009
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