Pennsylvania has launched a new online dashboard to show where ticks are prevalent and where tick-borne diseases are especially troublesome, and not surprisingly, our area is a hotbed.
Jefferson County, in fact, is second in the state for the highest number of people diagnosed with Lyme disease, with 247.09 cases per 100,000 residents in the first six months of the year. Indiana County has had 119.44 cases per 100,000 residents, Clearfield County 154.84, and Cambria County 108.95.
Cameron County has had the most cases, 448.53 per 100,000 residents. That county has only a little over 44-hundred residents. Indiana County ranks seventh in the most number of cases per 100,000 residents, behind Cameron, Jefferson, Wayne, Potter, Clearfield, and McKean counties.
As far as actual cases diagnosed between January 1st and July 1st, Indiana County had 99. Neighboring Westmoreland County had 230. Cambria had 144, Clearfield 124, Jefferson 109, and Armstrong had 56.
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