Resources

Study Predicts One-Third Increase in Number of Lyme Disease Cases per Year in the United States over a Ten-Year Period (2002-2012).

Looking for a Lyme literate physician referral check here.

Looking for a book on Lyme disease? We have several recommendations, any of which can be easily ordered online through Amazon.com.

312,241 cases of Lyme disease have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control, 1980 - 2008 (05/10/08). There have been 1,757 cases of Lyme Disease Reported to the Centers for Disease Control for the year 2008 (05/10/08). Remember it is conservatively estimated that only one in 10 cases of Lyme disease is actually reported to the CDC - so there may have been at least as many as 3.12 million cases of Lyme disease since 1980 and 17,570 cases in 2008.

Lyme disease Cases Reported by State, 1980 - 1989

Lyme disease Cases Reported by State, 1990 - 1999

Lyme disease Cases Reported by State, 2000 - current (with cumulative totals)

Cumulative Table 1980-Current

(Each Table will open in a new window. The cumulative table is a large file and may take a long time to open, depending on your connection speed).

Note: Statistics for 1981 are not available. In Hawaii Lyme Disease is not a Notifiable Disease.

 

Available here, a sample letter for patients to submit to their doctor to try and protect their medical records from being seized by a government agency outside of a subpoena. This may prevent states from conducting a "fishing expedition" by requesting medical records. The licensing boards may still obtain records, but they will need to have enough data to convince a judge to subpoena the records.

 

To locate free LDF information at your state's library system click on your state.

Lyme Disease: What You Should Know video
Lyme Disease: Operating and Participating in a Self-Help Group
Lyme Disease: Facts for Kids video's
Lyme Disease Community Education Program

 

Insurance problems? View recommendations to resolve problems. Then click on your state to obtain your insurance department's address.

Click your state on the map or use the links below.

 

• New England
  Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
• Mid-Atlantic
  New Jersey, New York, Pennslyvania
• Northeast Central
  Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin
• Northwest Central
  Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
• South Atlantic
  Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia
• Southeast Central
  Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee
• Southwest Central
  Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
• Mountain
  Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming
• Pacific
  Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington
• Canada