Infect Dis Clin North Am September 2022 PMID 36116831

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease.

Paul Mead

Mentions

74
Peak: 13 in Aug 2024
across 5 sources since Dec 2016

Extended reach

231,344
potential audience

Total likes

242

Video views

4,587

Mentions per month

Dec 2016 – Jan 2025

Where it's discussed

  • X / Twitter40 posts
  • News16 articles
  • YouTube11 videos
  • Bluesky5 posts
  • Blogs2 articles

AI synopsis

What people are saying

The collection of posts shows a clear interest in understanding the epidemiology of Lyme disease across different regions, with mentions of specific studies from Canada, Poland, and the U.S. That indicates a recognition of the research’s relevance to regional health concerns. The tone varies from informative to curious, with some posts sharing links to detailed papers, which demonstrates thoughtful engagement and recognition of the publication’s potential impact on both scientific understanding and practical health measures.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most discussions acknowledge the importance of the epidemiological data, with some references to the necessity of understanding Lyme disease patterns for better management.

InterestHigh interest

Posts demonstrate high curiosity, highlighting various regional studies and the potential implications of the research, using phrases like ‘really good reason to self-educate’ and noting rising cases.

EngagementModerate engagement

Several posts delve into specific topics such as climate effects, diagnostics pitfalls, and regional variations, indicating active engagement beyond mere acknowledgment.

ImpactModerate impact

The discussions suggest that the publication influences ongoing research and awareness, although some posts focus on local diagnostics or personal learning rather than broad policy impact.

Abstract in brief

  • Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in North America and Europe, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted through Ixodes ticks.
  • Infection rates vary based on tick distribution, ecological factors, and human activities that increase exposure, with children aged 5-15 and adults over 50 being the most at risk.
  • Understanding the epidemiology is crucial for effective diagnosis and management, especially since death is rare despite the diverse clinical features.

Top posts

Most liked on X and Bluesky
Samantha Sambado
@samsambado · X

How do we better predict Lyme disease incidence with climate, tick, mammal & human data? Co-author, Andy MacDonald, led a study that linked local-scale community ecology and large-scale epidemiology of Lyme disease (LD) in California. https://t.co/j19BNdOftj

Nov 23, 2022 · 13 likes · 3 shares · 306 followers View post →
alPHa
@PHAgencies · X

Plenary Session – Tick Talk Presenter: @KingstonMOH, @KFLAPH. Attendees at #alPHa2019 are learning about the epidemiology of Lyme disease in Ontario, prevention strategies, and early signs and symptoms. https://t.co/O6YhvhPKK1

Jun 10, 2019 · 4 likes · 1 share · 1,207 followers View post →
Sergey Minaev
@sminaev2015 · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States https://t.co/n5qHYXhdoU

Aug 19, 2024 · 3 likes · 1 share · 31,471 followers View post →
Global Health Observ
@GlobalPHObserv · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/8doZighhp7

Aug 23, 2024 · 3 likes · 3 shares · 6,543 followers View post →
Robert N. Schlesinger
@RobertNSchlesi1 · X

Linked below is Ecology and Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Western North America. Lyme disease affects about half a million Americans/yr, w/Canadian cases rising. Most previous Lyme studies focused on eastern North America (N.A.), rather than western N.A. https://t.co/WVj6FSmf34

Sep 13, 2023 · 3 likes · 488 followers View post →
Katie Waldo
@mkwaldo · X

I’ve recently started doing weekly team meeting ice breakers at work. In the past 2 weeks, I’ve shared my obsession with meteorology, and my podcast of the moment: the epidemiology of Lyme Disease (@patientzeropod). Really solidifying that super nerd status these days.

Aug 27, 2019 · 3 likes · 1 share · 171 followers View post →

All mentions

CanLyme
@canlyme.com · Bluesky

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Canada 2009-2019 #lyme #cdnhealth canlyme.com/2025/01/epid...

Jan 27, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 share View post →
CanLyme
@CanLyme · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Canada 2009-2019 #Lyme #lymedisease https://t.co/EPlggQ3Rsd

Jan 27, 2025 · 3,259 followers View post →
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
@ofidjournal.bsky.social · Bluesky

Epidemiology of Lyme disease as identified through electronic health records in a large midwestern health system, 2016­-2019 ✅ Just Accepted

Jan 15, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Gabriel Rodriguez
@GaboRodriguez85 · X

RT @OFIDJournal: Epidemiology of Lyme disease as identified through electronic health records in a large midwestern health system, 2016­?20…

Jan 15, 2025 · 1 share · 782 followers View post →
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
@OFIDJournal · X

Epidemiology of Lyme disease as identified through electronic health records in a large midwestern health system, 2016­?2019 ✅ Just Accepted

Jan 14, 2025 · 1 share · 14,906 followers View post →
Documents Delivered, LLC
@DocsDel · X

Epidemiology of Lyme disease among workers of forest inspectorates in Poland https://t.co/rSEcr4Lj7l

Oct 19, 2024 · 178 followers View post →
Dani Sandler
@dismalscientist86.bsky.social · Bluesky

TIL: The adorable little lizards that are all over the place in California are also preventing Lyme disease mailchi.mp/1809822912dd...

Sep 16, 2024 · 3 likes · 1 share View post →
Equity & Health
@equitylist · X

RT @GlobalPHObserv: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/8doZighhp7

Aug 23, 2024 · 3 shares · 28,889 followers View post →
Lucia Ruggiero EALR
@luciaruggiero · X

RT @GlobalPHObserv: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/8doZighhp7

Aug 23, 2024 · 3 shares · 1,029 followers View post →
Culture of Health Eq
@CofHEQ · X

RT @GlobalPHObserv: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/8doZighhp7

Aug 23, 2024 · 3 shares · 1,094 followers View post →
Global Health Observ
@GlobalPHObserv · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/8doZighhp7

Aug 23, 2024 · 3 likes · 3 shares · 6,543 followers View post →
Sergey Minaev
@sminaev2015 · X

RT @sminaev2015: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States https://t.co/n5qHYXhdoU

Aug 19, 2024 · 1 share · 31,471 followers View post →
Ken Gusler
@kgusler · X

Early Release - Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 - Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - https://t.co/oKgBzQhT54

Aug 19, 2024 · 20,028 followers View post →
Sergey Minaev
@sminaev2015 · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States https://t.co/n5qHYXhdoU

Aug 19, 2024 · 3 likes · 1 share · 31,471 followers View post →
Documents Delivered, LLC
@DocsDel · X

Data on the epidemiology of Lyme disease in Bulgaria https://t.co/5AZDreZOC8

Aug 15, 2024 · 178 followers View post →
Bloodsucking Parasites
@bloodSparasites · X

RT @bloodSparasites: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/YK9bbsxCSs @CDC_EIDjo…

Aug 15, 2024 · 1 share · 5,093 followers View post →
フルチン中年男性
@otakutokkai · X

RT @carpe_diem0820: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 米国CDCの研究によると、メディケアのデータを使用して、米国の65歳…

Aug 14, 2024 · 2 shares · 1,645 followers View post →
まる
@standardtherap · X

RT @carpe_diem0820: Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 米国CDCの研究によると、メディケアのデータを使用して、米国の65歳…

Aug 14, 2024 · 2 shares · 2,636 followers View post →
Mugen UJIIE (氏家 無限)
@carpe_diem0820 · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 米国CDCの研究によると、メディケアのデータを使用して、米国の65歳以上の高齢者におけるライム病(LD)の発生率を評価したところ、公衆衛生監視で報告されている数値の約7倍に達していた。 https://t.co/i8LxB5YYQF

Aug 14, 2024 · 2 likes · 2 shares · 12,379 followers View post →
Bloodsucking Parasites
@bloodSparasites · X

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Diagnoses among Older Adults, United States, 2016–2019 https://t.co/YK9bbsxCSs @CDC_EIDjournal https://t.co/gVRb3jE65f

Aug 13, 2024 · 1 like · 1 share · 5,093 followers View post →
POPLINE
@POPLINE_org · X

RT @DocsDel: Epidemiology of Lyme disease among workers of forest inspectorates in Poland https://t.co/tEuBeaYvfc

Nov 14, 2023 · 2 shares · 5,271 followers View post →
amnatacharoen
@amnatacharoen · X

RT @DocsDel: Epidemiology of Lyme disease among workers of forest inspectorates in Poland https://t.co/tEuBeaYvfc

Nov 14, 2023 · 2 shares · 4 followers View post →
Documents Delivered, LLC
@DocsDel · X

Epidemiology of Lyme disease among workers of forest inspectorates in Poland https://t.co/tEuBeaYvfc

Nov 14, 2023 · 2 shares · 178 followers View post →
Robert N. Schlesinger
@RobertNSchlesi1 · X

Linked below is Ecology and Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Western North America. Lyme disease affects about half a million Americans/yr, w/Canadian cases rising. Most previous Lyme studies focused on eastern North America (N.A.), rather than western N.A. https://t.co/WVj6FSmf34

Sep 13, 2023 · 3 likes · 488 followers View post →
Zoonotic Diseases
@ZDiseases · X

Editor’s Choice Articles

May 22, 2023 · 50 followers View post →
Yung Kautsky
@Aethiophililla · X

For personal reasons I now have a *really* good reason to self-educate about the epidemiology of Lyme disease. Y'all will be familiar with radical epidemiology in the context of Rob Wallace etc (writing on Ebola, SARS, and COVID). Has anything similar been written on Lyme yet?

Apr 23, 2023 · 546 followers View post →
Dr. Xochitl Clare | #DancingBiologist
@XochitlClare · X

RT @samsambado: How do we better predict Lyme disease incidence with climate, tick, mammal & human data? Co-author, Andy MacDonald, led a…

Dec 10, 2022 · 3 shares · 336 followers View post →
Chris Law
@Chris_J_Law · X

RT @samsambado: How do we better predict Lyme disease incidence with climate, tick, mammal & human data? Co-author, Andy MacDonald, led a…

Nov 23, 2022 · 3 shares · 1,371 followers View post →
EEMB GSAC
@gsac_ucsb · X

RT @samsambado: How do we better predict Lyme disease incidence with climate, tick, mammal & human data? Co-author, Andy MacDonald, led a…

Nov 23, 2022 · 3 shares · 117 followers View post →
Samantha Sambado
@samsambado · X

How do we better predict Lyme disease incidence with climate, tick, mammal & human data? Co-author, Andy MacDonald, led a study that linked local-scale community ecology and large-scale epidemiology of Lyme disease (LD) in California. https://t.co/j19BNdOftj

Nov 23, 2022 · 13 likes · 3 shares · 306 followers View post →
Medicina MDPI
@MdpiMedicina · X

#mdpiMedicina Recommend the top-cited paper from Dr. Agne Petrulioniene et. al: Epidemiology of #Lyme #Disease in a Highly Endemic European Zone Full text for free: https://t.co/enD5K3A9gG https://t.co/6eQw3rShcT

Sep 29, 2022 · 1 like · 805 followers View post →
LymeScience
@LymeScience · X

New from British Columbia, where there is little real #Lyme, but about two dozen naturopaths are fraudulently diagnosing and treating it: Epidemiology of Lyme disease and pitfalls in diagnostics: What practitioners need to know https://t.co/1da8iOsmpl

Jun 1, 2022 · 2,091 followers View post →
Patty Irigoyen
@PatriciaIrigo10 · X

@matylda68 Huh, I apparently have deficiencies in my European epidemiology of Lyme disease lol. Is it endemic over there?

Feb 5, 2021 · 1 like · 1,628 followers View post →
Lyme For A Cure
@lymeforacure · X

RE: The Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in British Columbia - CMAJ https://t.co/FjfUBhoQuX

Jul 28, 2020 · 1,169 followers View post →
LymeMIND Bot
@LymeMIND_Bot · X

A new #LymeDisease article

Mar 11, 2020 · 30 followers View post →
Zelalem
@Vironaut1 · X

"Tweeting habits of British and Irish Twitter users matched the known spatio-temporal epidemiology of Lyme disease in these respective countries." https://t.co/MExXzgW2zl

Nov 8, 2019 · 1 like · 179 followers View post →
Patient Zero: Lyme Disease
@patientzeropod · X

RT @mkwaldo: I’ve recently started doing weekly team meeting ice breakers at work. In the past 2 weeks, I’ve shared my obsession with meteo…

Aug 27, 2019 · 1 share · 364 followers View post →
Katie Waldo
@mkwaldo · X

I’ve recently started doing weekly team meeting ice breakers at work. In the past 2 weeks, I’ve shared my obsession with meteorology, and my podcast of the moment: the epidemiology of Lyme Disease (@patientzeropod). Really solidifying that super nerd status these days.

Aug 27, 2019 · 3 likes · 1 share · 171 followers View post →
Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez
@AAFaccini · X

@peakpilot @LymeScience @butleriano @SeanRMoorhead @peakpilot please read “Epidemiology of Lyme disease in low-incidence states” https://t.co/GRetEJ6aoP “Cases without travel-related exposure in low-incidence states differed epidemiologically; misdiagnosis may be common in these areas”

Jul 26, 2019 · 2 likes · 639 followers View post →
alexa c
@alexacmd · X

RT @PHAgencies: Plenary Session – Tick Talk Presenter: @KingstonMOH, @KFLAPH. Attendees at #alPHa2019 are learning about the epidemiology…

Jun 10, 2019 · 1 share · 243 followers View post →
alPHa
@PHAgencies · X

Plenary Session – Tick Talk Presenter: @KingstonMOH, @KFLAPH. Attendees at #alPHa2019 are learning about the epidemiology of Lyme disease in Ontario, prevention strategies, and early signs and symptoms. https://t.co/O6YhvhPKK1

Jun 10, 2019 · 4 likes · 1 share · 1,207 followers View post →
Lyme Disease Coalition, Inc.
@LDCTargetTicks · X

Epidemiology of Lyme disease in Pennsylvania 2006–2014 using electroni... https://t.co/2h5T0zY6nU

Apr 8, 2019 · 447 followers View post →
Tara Moriarty
@MoriartyLab · X

Recent papers from #Canadian #LymeDisease Research Network @clydrn members: Epidemiology of Lyme disease in Pennsylvania 2006-2014 using electronic health records https://t.co/CIxAqO9Y1S

Feb 8, 2019 · 1 like · 42,350 followers View post →
Tara Moriarty
@moriartylab.bsky.social · Bluesky

Recent papers from #Canadian #LymeDisease Research Network @clydrn members: Epidemiology of Lyme disease in Pennsylvania 2006-2014 using electronic health records https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X18301316

Feb 8, 2019 View post →
Tara Moriarty
@moriartylab.bsky.social · Bluesky

Epidemiology of Lyme Disease http://www.id.theclinics.com/article/S0891-5520%2815%2900024-0/abstract#.WFRzPcWIXAI.twitter

Dec 16, 2016 View post →