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As people across the northeastern U.S. begin venturing back into the outdoors with the arrival of spring, they will make 1 billion fewer trips than they otherwise would have if Lyme disease didn’t exist, a new Yale study concludes.
In an analysis published in the journal Environmental and Resource Economics, researchers found that perceived risks of contracting Lyme disease on average cause a person in the Northeast to forego eight 73-minute outdoor trips per year, costing them about nine hours of outdoor time per year. Although the cost of individual lost trips is small — about $2.75 to $5 — the total cost roughly $2.8 billion to $5 billion annually due to the large number of people in the region.
“Lyme disease has been around for a few decades but it still has a big cost to society,” said Eli Fenichel, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and senior author of the paper. “But the cost is not what people spend on doctors, or medicine, or even bug spray. These are costs that everybody incurs because we’re all choosing second-choice activities to avoid getting Lyme disease.”
“It’s a lot of people making very small changes, but in such a densely populated region that has major impacts.”
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prevalent across the northeastern U.S. and the Great Lakes region, the disease causes fever, headaches, fatigue, and skin rash. It can be prevented by use of repellents and removing ticks, as well as costly steps to remove tick habitat.
Or, as the researchers illustrate, individuals can simply find alternative activities to avoid tick habitat altogether.
To evaluate how the risk of Lyme disease impacts human behavior, the researchers analyzed data from the American Time Use Survey — a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics-based project that provides nationally representative estimates on how, when, and with whom people spend their time — and CDC data from 2003 to 2012.
After comparing those datasets, they found that the average individual in the average county spent 1.54 fewer minutes outside per day in response to an average of 72.17 Lyme disease cases reported to the CDC. This amounts to about 9.41 hours annually.
The research team say that though it is difficult to put a monetary cost on these lost opportunities, they calculate welfare loss based on the amount individuals are willing to spend to travel to recreate outdoors relative to spending leisure time at home — the location of most indoor leisure.
“People are giving up trips, and it’s not just hiking and camping in the woods,” said Kevin Berry, a former postdoctoral scholar at F&ES and the lead author of the study. “It’s trips to the park, soccer games, or walks and bike rides in places where there are stands of trees and tall grasses… a wide variety of activities pretty much anywhere in this part of the Northeast that’s outdoors.”
The findings illustrate the importance of careful evaluation when evaluating the ecosystem services and, in some cases, ecosystem “disservices” of nature. Indeed, though the historical notion that forests are places for humans to fear has largely been replaced by recognition that these spaces provide important services — including recreational opportunities — there remain some risks that can undermine these potential benefits, including the threat of tick-borne Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is representative of many environmental problems, Fenichel said; environmental risks and harms can have seemingly minor impacts on individuals, but can impose profound costs on society.
“It’s an issue that affects all of us, but it’s one of those environmental challenges that are so difficult to handle as a society,” Fenichel said. “It’s a big issue in aggregate — up to $5 billion in this case — but to anyone of us it’s not a big issue. Everybody cares a little bit, but perhaps not enough to take action. Though, in aggregate we’d be much better off if we cooperate to deal with Lyme disease.”
The study was a collaboration between Fenichel and three former postdoctoral scholars at F&ES: Berry, who is now at the University of Alaska, Anchorage; Jude Bayham, who is now at California State University at Chico; and Spencer Meyer, a senior conservationist at the Highstead Foundation.
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The black-legged tick, also known as the deer tick, can carry a variety of pathogens, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Syracuse, N.Y. — Bryon Backenson has taken ticks head-on since 1992, walking the woods and fields of New York and Connecticut to find, gather and test disease-carrying ticks.
“We go to 150 sites in spring and fall to collect ticks,” said Backenson, New York’s deputy director of communicable disease control. “In the years we’ve been doing this with staff and students, we’ve never had anybody who has gotten a tick-borne disease.”
Ticks, particularly the black-legged or deer tick, carry a variety of diseases. The most common and well-known is Lyme disease, caused by a bacteria carried in the tick’s gut.
Backenson said he and his fellow researchers are living proof that prevention works.
“We practice what we preach,” he said.
Upstate NY tick expert: How to protect yourself from Lyme disease
Ticks have been increasing as the climate warms, SUNY ESF researcher says.
He recommends that if you’re going to be in an area likely to have ticks, you do what researchers do:
— Wear light-colored clothes so you can see the dark ticks climbing on you.
— Tuck the bottoms of your pant legs into your socks to make it harder for ticks to reach your skin.
–Check your entire body at least every 24 hours, and remove any ticks you find on your skin.
— Consider using bug repellents that contain DEET for skin and permethrin for clothes. (Researchers in the field have one disadvantage here: They can’t wear bug repellent because they’re trying to catch ticks, not scare them away.)
“As long as people take the proper precautions and end up removing ticks, there’s a really good likelihood you’re not going to get some tick-borne disease,” Backenson said. “If you happen to get the rash from Lyme, or flu-like symptoms that make you suspect Lyme, early doses of antibiotics can cure relatively quickly the majority of cases we see.”
Backenson also said that most tick bites likely don’t lead to disease because the ticks are pulled off before they can ingest blood and inject the bacteria. He said New York has about 8,000 new cases of Lyme disease every year, but he estimates that New Yorkers get 40,000 to 50,000 tick bites every year.
“I firmly believe there are lots and lots of tick bites out there that don’t necessarily lead to disease,” Backenson said.
The health department has several videos on its website about how to keep ticks away, and how to pull them off when they bite.
The peak season for Lyme disease, late spring and summer, is approaching. That’s when the tick nymphs are feeding, and they account for the vast majority of Lyme disease cases. While nymphal ticks are less likely to carry the bacteria than adult ticks, nymphs are much smaller, so people don’t see them to remove in time. Nymphs also tend to be most active in summer, when more people are out in woods and fields.
In much of Upstate, about 25 percent of nymphs carry the Lyme bacteria. That jumps to about 50 percent in adults, which have fed more often than nymphs and have had more chances to get the bacteria from the blood of deer, rodents and other animals.
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**Comment**
A few points:
Ticks are marvelous ecoadaptors and are impervious to the climate as shown by independent Canadian tick researcher John Scott: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/13/study-shows-lyme-not-propelled-by-climate-change/
“For blacklegged ticks, climate change is an apocryphal issue.” – John Scott
Again, researchers are about statistical significance – not individual significance. If you are the ONE sorry sucker who gets infected, all the statistics in the world become irrelevant. Why they state such things is beyond me. Treat each and EVERY tick bite seriously. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/12/07/igenex-presentation/ In this link we learn about a little girl that within 4-6 hours has facial palsy, and couldn’t walk or talk. Some cases escalate quickly.
As far as the bull’s eye rash goes, anywhere from 27-80% get it – hardly a sure thing. IF you have the rash, you HAVE LYME DISEASE. Period. If you don’t get the rash, it means nothing. The rash criteria has kept people from diagnosis and treatment for decades. Don’t let this happen to you. The “wait and see” if you develop symptoms approach has not and will not ever work. If you are bit by a tick, go in immediately and demand treatment. This could very well save your life and prevent you from chronic life-long symptoms.
