'Southern Tier a hotbed for Lyme disease, according to new 2016 data': Watch and read more about the work of the NYS Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases

New York State had 6,597 reported cases of Lyme Disease last year, according to data recently released in the New York State Department of Health’s 2016 Communicable Disease Annual Report. That’s an increase of 59 percent from 4,155 in 2006.

In the Southern Tier, Chemung County had 108 diagnoses per 100,000 residents; Schuyler, 110; Steuben, 69.7;  and Tompkins, 122.9.

Read more from the Ithaca Journal, "Southern Tier a hotbed for Lyme disease, according to new 2016 data"

View this recent report from ICTV on Lyme disease locally, and the work of Senator O'Mara, the New York State Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases, researchers at Cornell University and others, "Lyme disease in New York" 

Find a copy of the task force's recent report, "Ticking Time Bomb," attached above.