No Longer the Leader in Lyme Disease

Connecticut is no longer state with highest number of reported cases of Lyme disease, but no one claims this represents an actual decline in the incidence of the disease; number dropped to 40.3 cases per 100,000 after state dropped requirement that laboratories testing blood samples report positive findings to state; some advocacy group officials and members say lab-reporting protocol should be reinstituted while some public officials say data lost key purpose when vaccines were taken off marke…