CDC reports this year’s first Lyme infection - News Summed Up

CDC reports this year’s first Lyme infection


Centers for Disease Control Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Guo Hung-wei reports on an imported case of Lyme disease in Taipei on Tuesday. He tested negative for COVID-19, but positive for Lyme disease, Guo said, adding that his symptoms have since been relieved, while his family did not show any symptoms. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be transmitted to humans by infected ticks that had bitten infected animals, but it cannot be transmitted through human-to-human contact, CDC physician Lin Yung-ching (林詠青) said. Ticks that transmit Lyme disease are mainly found in the temperate climate zone, such as in the US, especially in the northeast, Canada, Europe, Russia, South America, Japan, South Korea and China, he said. There have been 17 imported cases of Lyme disease in Taiwan since the disease was designated as a category 4 notifiable communicable disease in 2007, he added.


Source: Taipei Times December 23, 2020 15:56 UTC



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