Reported Cases of Lyme Disease in Minnesota by Year
From 1996 to 2013, over 19,000 cases of tick-borne diseases were reported in Minnesota, the majority of which (14,367 cases) were Lyme disease. In 2013, 1,431 confirmed Lyme disease cases (26.6 cases per 100,000 population) were reported. In addition, 909 probable cases (physician-diagnosed cases that did not meet clinical evidence criteria for a confirmed case but that had laboratory evidence of infection) were reported. The median number of 1,065 cases (range 912-1,431 cases) reported from 2005 through 2013 is considerably higher than the median number of cases reported annually from 1996 through 2004 (median 463 cases, range 252-1,023).
The number of Lyme disease cases has been increasing dramatically since the 1990s. A variety of factors, including increasing physician awareness, increasing infection rates in ticks, and expanding tick distribution may have led to this trend.
The Lyme disease cases in 2013 ranged in age from 1 to 88 years; the median age was 42 years. In 2013, 64% of Lyme disease cases were male.
- Reported Cases of Lyme Disease in Minnesota
by Year, 1996-2013 (PDF: 108KB/1 page)
Graph showing the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in Minnesota by year.