CDC: Lyme disease sickens 300,000 a year, 10 times more people that are annually reported
Excerpted from the Washington Post: (08/19/2013)
Usually, only 20,000 to 30,000 illnesses are reported each year. For many years, CDC officials have known that many doctors don’t report every case and that the true count was probably much higher.
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