“Ticking Bomb”: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incidence of Lyme Disease

Figure 1

Map of the United States with highlighted counties from our Sample. Note: this map displays our sample of 468 counties in the 15 states considered by CDC as the states with the highest incidence of LD (over 95 percent of all cases in the United States). Darker blue colors represent higher incidence of the disease—cases per 100,000 population.