CDC: Lyme Disease Cases Increase Dramatically Due to Change in Reporting

The CDC revealed that Lyme disease cases in the United States increased about 70 percent in 2022 due to new reporting measures.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on April 23, 2020. Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images

Lyme disease cases in the United States increased about 70 percent in 2022, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which said that it was due to a change in reporting.

Reported cases of the tick-borne bacterial infection surpassed 62,000 in 2022 after it averaged about 37,000 each year from 2017 to 2019, the agency said Thursday in a report.