Last year will likely turn out to be an average year for Lyme disease infections in Connecticut, unlike in Maine, which experienced a dramatic decrease in 2018, possibly caused by a drought in that state.

“We have to be very careful to use precipitation as a proxy for the number of Lyme disease cases in humans,” said Goudarz Molaei, director of the tick-testing program at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven and a professor at the Yale School of Public Health.

“I think that based on the trend that we have had … we are going to have [an] average number of Lyme disease cases, not substantially lower,” he said. Final totals won’t be in until April, however, Molaei said.

Source: New Haven Register