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Data from Animals & Insects

	Year
Tick Related Illness	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Anaplasmosis	8	8	7	15	16	14	6	8	9
Babesiosis	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1
Bourbon Virus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Ehrlichiosis	53	84	165	237	193	204	207	173	250
Heartland Virus	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
Lyme disease	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1	7	7	4	19
Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis	558	835	488	826	891	821	1,216	1,065	1,081
Tularemia	39	26	41	43	24	24	32	56	93
Year Total	658	953	701	1,121	1,125	1,080	1,470	1,309	1,455

 

	Year
Mosquito Related Illness - Locally Acquired	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Eastern equine Encephalitis (EEE)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE)	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Nile virus (WNV)	1	64	18	11	18	9	18	8	9
Year Total	4	64	19	11	18	9	18	8	9

 

Year
Horses	2019
EEE (horses)	7
WNV (horses)	1

 

	Year
Mosquito Travel Associated	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Malaria	6	4	2	7	9	6	5	2	0
Chikungunya Virus	0	0	0	7	4	1	0	0	0
Dengue	0	1	2	4	1	3	0	2	3
Zika	0	0	0	0	3	16	2	0	0
Year Total	6	5	4	18	17	26	7	4	23

 

	Year
Other Zoonotic Related Illness	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Animal Rabies	60	131	152	151	73	23	42	31	26
Blastomycosis	6	9	9	6	22	8	12	12	26
Brucellosis	3	1	3	0	1	3	1	2	3
Chagas Disease	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	2
Histoplasmosis	66	51	56	67	60	71	161	85	89
Q-Fever	5	1	3	5	3	5	3	3	2
Toxoplasmosis	1	1	4	9	2	11	12	14	121

*Cases are defined as lab reports submitted to ADH that has either a Confirmed or Probable case Status, in the Arkansas Department of Health's NEDSS Based System (NBS). The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is an active participant in the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS). Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NEDSS is a system to improve the public health monitoring of diseases.

Zoonotic Reports

Tickborne Disease (2020)

Mosquito Surveillance Report (2019)

 

For Health Care Professionals: Case Definition

The Arkansas Department of Health utilizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) case definitions for reporting and surveillance purposes for all tick and mosquito related diseases (including Lyme). 

Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Current case definitions for all diseases can be found on the CDC website.

 

Points for Patients

The Arkansas Department of Health is not responsible for diagnosing and testing for tickborne and most mosquito related diseases. ADH is mainly responsible for reporting laboratory and health care professional confirmed cases for surveillance purposes. It is important to recognize cases of disease when they occur, so ADH examines every disease related lab result of tick and mosquito related illness that is reported. Ticks and mosquitoes can be found throughout Arkansas. To avoid all tickborne and mosquito related illnesses, you can take these measures to prevent insect bites - click here.