Originally Posted by
Rob_E
I'm not seeing what you're seeing. The graphs show the number of cases total. Not cases adjusted for population growth. There is a table showing population adjusted data for 2005 to 2015. The last row is for the whole US. No real change in 10 years. Same for NC.
Apologies; I didn't look carefully enough. Check out
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production..._lyme_2016.pdf
the first "key point" of Page 2:
"The incidence of Lyme disease in the United States has approximately doubled since 1991, from 3.74 reported cases per 100,000 people to 7.95 reported cases per 100,000 people in 2014 (see Figure 1)."