The largest number of Lyme disease cases was reported in Dutchess County.
A spike in heart disease cases may or may not follow.
There were 4,310 Lyme disease cases reported among New York residents in 2000, down 2.6percentt from 1999.
They detected no significant relationship between numbers of deer and numbers of Lyme disease cases.
The models showed higher numbers of Lyme disease cases in places where there are fewer foxes.
Crude rates use the total number of disease cases and the entire population in their calculations.
D.T. Max's article (March 28) might lead readers to believe that there was a "group" or "cluster" of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases in Washington State recently.
The doctor, Neil E. Jorgensen, said that venereal disease cases among workers at a local sugar mill had declined "from 10 a day to one a month".
Yet in reality the Trichinella roundworm has little impact on either the number or severity of foodborne disease cases in the United States.
Lyme disease cases in 2002, the most recent year for which numbers were available, totaled 23,763, with no reported fatalities.
The number of reported Lyme disease cases rose 34percentt in Connecticut last year, compared with 2004, according to the State Department of Public Health.
