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11/18/2008 05:42
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Sounds good ..U R part of the statistics and helping in the battle that way!
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11/18/2008 06:04
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Well, this is all very interesting and just the prod I needed to get me rolling. I'm going to find a doctor who will report my infections. I read somewhere that it only takes two cases to classify an area/county as endemic.
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11/18/2008 16:03
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It all depends on your state too!!!!

Some are behind...like the Southern states!!! Go figure!

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11/18/2008 16:30
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lbetson wrote:

I just got off the phone with them. They basically wanted to know when I got bit and if I was being treated. Did not ask me anything about my doctor. They said that doctors report these types of infections to the state and they wanted to verify this with me.

Good to know,.. this way if I get a call, too, I won't be alarmed! Thanks for posting this thread!

Question,.. how long from dx til you got the phonecall thereabouts? Just curious.

Connie~ Two cases to make a county endemic? Wouldn't that be nice if that were the case everywhere? *sigh* If only.... My LLMD has had a few Lymies locally here, including me now, and he reports all of them. Most docs here don't. In fact, mine reported ONE WHOLE THIRD of the cases that did get reported here in Oregon last year, so he's definitely a good one, but ya know what? Oregon doesn't have Lyme! But then, that's no headline....

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11/18/2008 18:43
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No Lyme in Texas either! It's a north "thing"! LOL

Like people don't ever travel or cross states lines or go out of country????

I'm sorry most MD's have no common sense!!!

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11/19/2008 05:45
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I was being treated in late May so about 6 months.
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11/19/2008 07:20
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The CDC has a list of notifiable diseases:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncphi/disss/nndss/phs/infdis2008.htm

State and local health departments use this list as a template to decide what diseases they want to know about, whether a health care provider must report it, or if a testing lab must report it themselves.

I'm sure you can find the info on your state or local health department web site.

The more it's reported, the better.

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11/19/2008 17:12
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A few months back when I had blood drawn by LabCorp my doctor told me that if I tested positive on the regular western blot (not IgeneX) that the health department typially calls before the doctor does as LabCorp or any other lab reports it immediatley to the local Health Department.
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11/19/2008 17:28
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Hmmmm...I'm positive that my case was not reported. And I know what you mean about no Lyme in the South....so frustrating.....so, does the tick stop when it gets to the state line and say , oh no, that's a Southern state. I don't go that far. Or , if a bird is carrying it, does the tick jump off before the bird heads South? Come on.....this is so frustrating. Plus, I just went to a new doc. I'm in the process of finding a new internal medicine doc to cover the basics....I might as well get something for all that insurance we pay. Anyway, I told him about having Lyme and all those coinfections, too. Well, he said, 'I believe that you had Lyme, but there's no way that you had Babesia, unless you've been in the West Indies."......can you believe this? Well, I was nice, but I made it clear that he is wrong and has something to learn. He probably thinks I'm crazy,too....just like the others.....so frustrating. Oh well, we gotta keep on spreading the word and educating.

And yes, BfourA, I read that in a book called Everything you need to Know About Lyme by Karen Vanderhoof.

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