Annual Lyme costs now top $3.1 billion—It’s time to wake up! - These sound like low estimates for what individuals actually spend on Lyme disease treatments per year. --The CDC is likely to officially update its cost estimates for Lyme disease based on the new case numbers, but in the meantime, Ive pulled together some rough estimates. The annual cost of Lyme disease in the US in 2002 was estimated at $203 million by Dr. Zhang of the CDC. Today the annual cost is likely to exceed $3.1 Billion. The increased cost reflects the CDC revision of case numbers from 30,000 to 300,000... These sound like low estimates for what individuals actually spend on Lyme disease treatments per year.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:54:47 +0000
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