Steps to prevent Lyme disease include using insect repellent, removing ticks promptly, applying pesticides, and reducing tick habitat. The ticks that transmit Lyme disease can occasionally transmit other tickborne diseases as well. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link.
Lyme Disease. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Signs and Symptoms of Untreated Lyme Disease. Diagnosis and Testing. Data and Statistics. People who work outside or spend time in woodland areas, where there is greater potential for exposure to tick bites, are most at risk of infection. Good to know: People affected by late lyme disease may develop other subtypes of late lyme disease, such as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome PTLDS or chronic Lyme disease.
Symptoms of late Lyme disease may include joint pain arthritis , skin changes, musculoskeletal or neurologic complications. Like the less severe forms of Lyme disease, late Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics, although medical opinions differ about the appropriate length of an antibiotic treatment course.
People experiencing possible symptoms of late Lyme disease can use the free Ada app to carry out a symptom assessment. Lyme disease is caused by bacteria called Borrelia Burgdorferi. These bacteria are spread through tick bites from infected black-legged ticks.
Burgdorferi into the home. No type of Lyme disease can be passed from person to person, so there is no risk of infection between humans. Although anyone can develop Lyme disease, it tends to be slightly more common in children and older adults.
It is possible to minimise the risk of infection from Lyme disease in all people by checking the body for ticks, particularly after spending time in woodland areas or heaths. To remove a tick: [4]. Treating Lyme disease promptly with antibiotics , as soon after showing symptoms following a bite from an infected tick as possible, can help to reduce the likelihood of developing late disseminated Lyme disease.
Late Lyme disease usually develops months after a person first receives the causal infectious tick bite. The symptoms of late Lyme disease differ from the earlier stages. In North America, joint pain and swelling is very common.
In Europe, skin changes are more common. These skin changes consist of swelling, redness and thinning of the skin on usually one hand or one foot. Other symptoms of LLD may include arthritis, weakness of the facial muscles, heart palpitations and aching muscles. Although some people may develop neurologic problems , these are rare, but may include:. The current focus of the Program is on prevention. The emergence of Lyme disease in Connecticut is attributed in large part to changes in land use.
That is, land at one time used for farming has become reforested and increasingly developed for suburban residential use. These changes favor expansion of habitat that supports ticks and wildlife and therefore transmission of tick-borne diseases from animals to people in residential areas and among those who work or recreate outdoors. With no vaccine currently available, prevention is based on avoidance of tick bites through a combination of personal protection and environmental measure.
To help meet the program's mission, The Epidemiology and Emerging Infections Program will continue to maintain surveillance for Lyme disease. Public health surveillance is one of the tools that infectious disease epidemiologists use to monitor the occurrence of diseases of public health importance and assess the effectiveness of control measures.
In the United States, the system for reportable diseases works best for diseases that are either rare in occurrence, involve hospitalized patients, or for which there are definitive diagnostic laboratory tests. The system works less well for diseases that are common, diagnosed in outpatient settings, and for which there are no definitive diagnostic laboratory tests. The under-reporting of these diseases, including Lyme disease, is common.
Over the years, epidemiologists from the Department of Public Health DPH have used a variety of epidemiological methods -- including active surveillance, population-based surveys, and case-control studies -- to augment the information obtained from the traditional passive surveillance system for Lyme disease.
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