“maybe we are catching up to Australia lol”
No, an incredibly long ways to go, fortunately.
I know, i was kidding- and yes- we’re pretty fortunate but- things are getting pretty bad with ticks spreading across country- I suspect many people go diagnosed- especially in states where it hasn’t been ‘officially recognized’ yet- many hometown docs just don’t know what the sick people’s symptoms add up to yet-
We had a neighbor who’s daughter got bit- developed the bullseye rash, and hometown doc said ‘nope- not lyme disease’ because the test came back ‘negative for lyme’ (Which is another reason not many people get diagnosed- the tests are notoriously bad at detecting it)
Anyway- she took her daughter to the city for testing because she got so weak- and yep- turned out to be lyme disease-