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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Tables (Morbidity) for Idaho:

As of week 52 of 1998 (January 2, 1999), 7 case reports for Lyme
disease in Idaho have been accepted and reported by the CDC for 1998.

   MMWR Morbidity Tables
   http://158.111.4.28/mmwr/mmwrmorb.htm

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In 1997 4 cases of Lyme disease were reported for Idaho.

Idaho has reported 59 Lyme disease cases from 1982 to 1997.

   Lyme disease cases reported by CDC, 1982-1997
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/ld82_97.pdf

Including the 7 cases so far for 1998, the grand total of CDC reported
Lyme disease for Idaho, for the years 1982-1998, is 66 cases.

Idaho statutes on Lyme disease:

IDAPA 16
TITLE 02
Chapter 10

16.02.10 - IDAHO REPORTABLE DISEASES

010. REPORTABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS.

A licensed physician who diagnoses, treats or cares for a person with a
reportable disease or condition must make a report of such disease or
condition to the Department or District as described in these rules. The
hospital or health care facility administrator, or his delegated
representative, must report in accordance with these rules all persons
who are diagnosed, treated, or receive care for a reportable disease or
condition in the administrator's facility. Reports need not be made by
the hospital administrator, or his representative, if they can assure
that the attending physician has previously reported the disease or
condition. The physician is also responsible for reporting diseases and
conditions diagnosed, or treated by physician assistants, nurse
practitioners or others under the physician's supervision. In addition
to licensed physicians, reports must also be made by physician
assistants, certified nurse practitioners, registered nurses, school
health nurses, infection surveillance staff, public health officials,
laboratory directors, and coroners. No physician, hospital
administrative person, or patient may deny Districts or agents of the
Board access to medical records in discharge of their duties in
implementing the reportable disease rules. School administrators shall
report as indicated in Subsection 025.03.g. (9-21-92)

01. Reportable Diseases and Conditions. The following diseases and
conditions are reportable to the Department or District. (11-17-83)
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xxii. Lyme Disease; (9-21-92)
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.02. Form of the Report. (11-17-83)

a. Each report of a reportable disease or condition shall include the
identity and address of the attending licensed physician or the person
reporting, the diagnosed or suspected disease or condition, the name,
current address, telephone number and birth date or age of the
individual with the disease or condition, and the date of onset of the
disease or condition. (11-17-83)

b. A written report of a case or suspected case shall be made to the
Department or the District on a form, specified and provided by the
Department and distributed by Districts, or reports can be made by
telephone to the Department or District where a report form shall be
completed on each case. (9-21-92)
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c. The identification of any organism known to cause a reportable
disease or condition listed in Subsection 010.03.d. shall be reported to
the Department or District by the laboratory director or his authorized
representative.

[Lyme disease not required to be reported by laboratories in Idaho.]
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03. When to Report. (11-17-83)
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c. The remaining reportable diseases and conditions listed below shall
be reported to the Department or District by telephone or by report form
within one (1) week of the identification of a case; (9-21-92)
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xviii. Lyme Disease; (9-21-92)
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020. SPECIFIC CONTROL MEASURES FOR REPORTABLE DISEASES.
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22. Lyme Disease. (9-21-92)

a. Each case of Lyme Disease shall be reported to the Department or
District within one (1) week of the identification. (9-21-92)

b. Each report of a case shall be investigated to confirm the diagnosis
and to identify possible sources of the infection. Any identified or
suspected source of infection shall be reported to the Department, which
shall notify the Idaho Department of Agriculture if animals are
involved. (9-21-92)

[Last Modified: Monday, June 02, 1997]

   Table of Contents
   http://www.idwr.state.id.us/apa/idapa16/0210.htm

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State of Idaho on Lyme disease:

   State of Idaho Home Page
   http://www2.state.id.us/

Idaho Fish and Game News Release

Contact: Ed Mitchell
Release Date: April 21, 1997

Incredible Idaho Airs May 10

The next Incredible Idaho will air May 10 at 6:30 p.m. on KTVB/Boise and
on KTFT 38/Twin Falls. Check local listings for dates and times in your
area.

For those who love the outdoors, springtime also means tick season.
Where do they come from and how dangerous are they? Dr. Charles Baker
specializes in entomology the study of insects. He will show Incredible
Idaho what they look like close-up in the laboratory. Then he will give
some tips for avoiding ticks and answer our questions about Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme Disease.

   Idaho Fish and Game News Release
   http://www2.state.id.us/fishgame/hq04-21.htm

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Idaho Department of Health on Lyme disease:

   Health and Welfare Home Page
   http://www2.state.id.us/dhw/hwgd_www/home.html

TICK-BORNE INFECTIONS TABLE

DISEASE
TYPE OF TICK
SYMPTOMS
INCUBATION PERIOD*

Lyme Disease

Very small, hard ticks which are carried by a variety of small rodents
and large animals such as deer. Ticks from the Ixodes genus are most
common. The Ixodes pacificus is common in the west.

Symptoms begin with a red ring-shaped rash. The center part of the
lesion remains clear. The lesion may spread to more than 2 inches in
diameter. More than 1 lesion may appear. Other symptoms may include:
fatigue, fever, headache, stiff neck, and muscle or joint pain. Chronic
arthritis or neurological symptoms may occur.

Symptoms usually begin 3-32 days after tick exposure.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS

Panhandle District Health Department
2195 Ironwood Court
Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814
(208) 667-3481

North Central District Health Department
215 10th Street
Lewiston, ID 83501
(208) 799-3100

Southwest District Health Department
920 Main Street
Caldwell, ID 83605
(208) 459-0744

Central District Health Department
707 N. Armstrong Place
Boise, ID 83704
(208) 375-5211

South Central Health Department
324 Second Street East
Twin Falls, ID 83303
(208) 734-5900

Southeast Health Department
465 Memorial Drive
Pocatello, ID 83201
(208) 233-9080

District 7 Health Department
254 "E" Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83402-3597
(208) 522-0310

   Infectious Disease Facts Sheets
   http://www2.state.id.us/dhw/hwgd_www/health/cdp/factshet.html

Media articles about Lyme disease in Idaho:

Top Mid-Columbia stories for April 28 [1997]

Ticks creeping up on Mid-Columbia

Tri-City Herald

Ticks are beginning to crawl out of the earth in the Mid-Columbia.

Seeking blood.

Just ask Cheryl Stevens, owner of The Classy Critter pet styling salon
in Pasco.

"We're just starting the tick season," she said. "It'll probably get
worse."

It usually does.

No one really knows exactly how "worse." No one has taken a Mid-Columbia
tick census.

No one wants to.

Except for maybe David Stiller, a research entomologist for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,based in Pullman and Moscow, Idaho.

Ask just about anyone in the Pacific Northwest interested in the subject
and Stiller's name will come up as the region's tick man.

Here's one of Stiller's credentials: As you read this story, he is
lovingly nurturing about 50,000 ticks in a research incubator.

An odd pursuit: Raising insects that bore their heads into flesh and
gorge on blood until they swell as big as a fingertip, hanging on like
oily-gray Christmas ornaments in a strange parasitic display of
devotion.

Said Stevens: "If you live along the river this time of the year, you're
going to have problems. Go fishing with your dogs and guaranteed you'll
come back with ticks."

Those ticks most likely are Rocky Mountain wood ticks, said Stiller.
They start emerging in late February in the Mid-Columbia. The American
dog tick will begin crawling into the light in May.

The species are similar. Both emerge from eggs to become six-legged
larvae, much smaller than a BB. These youngsters seek their first blood
meal from small animals, usually rodents.

Then comes the nymph stage, when the now-eight-legged critter seeks a
slightly larger host - a jackrabbit, perhaps.

Finally reaching adulthood, the ticks are about 3/16ths of an inch
across and looking for larger mammals, such as deer, cattle, your dog -
or you.

The process takes two years, depending on the weather and other factors,
Stiller said. It's a complex business that defies crisp, scholarly
explanation.

"Why is this a ticky year? The answer is, we're really not sure,"
Stiller said.

"Winter is a factor, but not the whole picture. It may have to do with
how abundant ticks were the summer before, and that depends on how many
rodents and rabbits were around.

"If there was a rodent (population) crash, or a jack rabbit crash, there
may not be many ticks going into winter," Stiller said.

So, coyotes - which prefer to dine on rabbits and rodents - should be a
hero to those who hate ticks, right?

Not necessarily, Stiller said.

"Coyotes carry ticks, too."

And ticks carry disease.

At least 12 diseases of humans - and many others of other mammals - are
known to be transmitted by ticks, Stiller said.

That's the bad news.

The good: The odds of running into an infected tick in the Mid-Columbia
are long.

There doesn't seem to be a big enough pool of Rocky Mountain spotted
fever infection in the area to keep it alive, Stiller said.

Lyme disease isn't carried by the Rocky Mountain or dog tick, Stiller
said.

In the Northwest, the Pacific Coast black leg tick carries Lyme disease,
but they live west of the Cascades, Stiller said.

But that doesn't mean Lyme disease cannot be found in the Mid-Columbia.

You can get the disease if you travel west of the mountains, encounter a
tick and then return.

Or, your pet can bring back a black leg tick from the coast and drop it
in a moist place in the Mid-Columbia, possibly establishing a very
isolated community of the insect, he said.

However, there has been no reported case of Lyme disease in the Mid-
Columbia, Stiller said.

The best way to protect yourself from tick-borne disease is to stay away
from ticks. That means avoiding river bottoms and other moist areas
where ticks dangle from undergrowth, waiting for a ride and some blood.

If you find a tick with its head bored into flesh - either human or
animal - take it out as soon as possible.

"Very few pathogens enter the body during the first 24 hours," Stiller
said.

Here's what to do: Using tweezers, maneuver under and around the tick's
body until the tweezer points are close to the head. Then pull straight
out with firm pressure, Stiller said.

Cleanse the wound with alcohol.

   Ticks creeping up on Mid-Columbia,
   Top Mid-Columbia stories for April 28, 1997, Tri-City Herald
   http://www.tri-cityherald.com/NEWS/oldnews/1997/0428.html

 American Lyme Disease Foundation - USMap    Idaho

 Lyme Disease -- United States, 1996