Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016
Dispatch
Lyme Disease in Hispanics, United States, 2000–2013
Christina A. Nelson
, J. Andrew Starr, Kiersten J. Kugeler, and Paul S. Mead
, J. Andrew Starr, Kiersten J. Kugeler, and Paul S. Mead
Table 2
Locations with the highest number of estimated cases and incidence of LD among Hispanics, United States, 2000–2013*
| Location | No. reported cases among Hispanics | % Total reported cases with ethnicity information | Estimated total no. cases† | % Total estimated no. Hispanics with LD | No. annual estimated cases/100,000 Hispanics | Counties with highest estimated incidence among Hispanics‡ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All states | 5,473 | 39.7 | 13,786 | 100 | 0.8 | – |
| New York | 1,825 | 52.8 | 3,456 | 25.1 | 3.6 | Columbia (170.4), Putnam (61.3), Dutchess (47.4) |
| New Jersey | 474 | 14.2 | 3,331 | 24.2 | 7.6 | Sussex (111.4), Hunterdon (106.3), Warren (41.3) |
| Connecticut | 986 | 50.6 | 1,950 | 14.1 | 14.5 | Windham (45.6), New London (30.8), Fairfield (11.9) |
| Massachusetts | 491 | 36.0 | 1,364 | 9.9 | 7.8 | Plymouth (17.3), Norfolk (13.1), Middlesex (8.5) |
| Pennsylvania | 356 | 28.8 | 1,238 | 9.0 | 6.1 | Bucks (18.3), Northampton (16.3), Chester (14.3) |
| Maryland | 253 | 35.7 | 708 | 5.1 | 5.4 | Howard (16.0), Baltimore (14.1), Anne Arundel (8.8) |
*LD, Lyme disease.
†After correcting for missing ethnicity data. Calculated as follows: (no. reported cases)/x = (% with ethnicity information)/100, where x is the weighted number of cases.
‡Incidence calculated as number of annual estimated cases in county/100,000 Hispanic residents in county. Only counties with a substantial number of cases were included in this comparison. Seventy-five weighted cases was chosen as the cutoff based on distribution.
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