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gLutti"" Szekel'y, Village of C"aY|fla eights Trustee
f"t itt. Novemtrer 2011 Board of T Meeting
Recent reports of cases conLtracted
prevent it after deer ticl< bites sugl
'th" pr"uut"nce of LYme disease in
Locally, citing the TonnPkins,C ty Health DePa_rtment
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be updated with aclditional rmation shortlY.
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thut.urrr", Lyme disease is a spirochete'o The baLcteria "Borrelia bu
are the white-footed mouse and the white-taiiedo "The reservoirs for the sPi
deer."Contact with theo 'oTranrimissiorr is accomPli
tick usuallY occurs in the a
And turning to the national LYme isease Foundation
o "The ti,rk populaticln in Ton
o Cases of LYme disease rePo
o Public health nurse Jeff Mo
pkt"t Ct ",y
has grown over the last decade'"
ted: 9 in2007;46 in 2008; 70 in 2010
."p""tt the Public Health Department's web site to
by the bite of infected deer ticks'
of brush and tall grass'"
o New'York Stirte has had
between 198() and 2010 o
o WidesPread under rePorti
In sum: the health dePattment co
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. Lyme disease accounts fo
Tompkins CrluntY heLve the Bo:
to...ihe highest rates in l{ew Y
Of note: One recommended sou
of white-tailed deer to l'Yme dtst
Connecticut DePartment of Agri
of Cayuga Fleights website
90% of vector-borne disease cases in the US'
,r" "ur., reported than any other state with a total
108,728.
r is assumed because of difficulty in data collection'
Lcluded from a 2008 analysis that 300/o of deer ticks in
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state." Lyme disease related to the burgeoning deer
for research on the positive correlation of the number
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n."t f op,rtation C ontrol (http : //mrwv' ca)'u ga-
popufu,ion is; a seriorus and growi public health concern'
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