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New Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard (https://www.hopkinslymetracker.org/) is first, authors say, to define Lyme Disease hotspots and map disease across US and Canada

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Fig 1. US view of “Lyme Map” application.

image: The data in this figure are from CDC and the US Census Bureau and are in the public domain. Map tiles are reprinted under a CC BY license, with permission from CARTO, original copyright 2021. CARTO map tiles contain information from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation, which is made available under the Open Database License. view more 

Credit: Curriero et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

New Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard (https://www.hopkinslymetracker.org/) is first, authors say, to define Lyme Disease hotspots and map disease across US and Canada

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0260122   

Article Title: The Lyme and Tickborne disease dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: The Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard is funded by a gift from the David P. Nolan Charitable Fund (to FCC, no grant number). The funder provided input on the dashboard design but was not involved in data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. 


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