As Mainers head to camps, pull out their grills, and put boats in the water for the first time this season, health officials of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MeCDC) have issued an advisory to raise awareness of the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning and how best to prevent it.
“Each year, we see a handful of poisonings and most could have been avoided,” said Dr. Sheila Pinette, director of the Me CDC. “You have to know how to prevent yourself from getting poisoned by carbon monoxide so a day of fun doesn’t become a day of tragedy,” said Pinette.
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. To help Mainers prepare for tick season and prevent the spread of tickborne diseases, the Maine Tracking Network has released updated Lyme disease data through the year 2017. In Maine, 1,844 cases of Lyme disease were reported in 2017, an increase of 347 cases from 2016.
Well water quality data are from the Maine Center for Disease Control's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory.
1999 - 2019
County, Town
The Maine EPHT program receives well water sample data on an ad hoc basis from the Maine Center for Disease Control's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory (HETL).
Adults with homes on well water and water testing behavior data are from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
Single years 2012, 2014-2019, 2021; combined years 2016-2019 and 2021
State, Public Health District, County
Near real-time emergency department visits for suspected tick exposure are from the Maine CDC Infectious Disease Program’s syndromic surveillance system.
2024 to date, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019; by week.
State
The Maine EPHT program receives daily counts of emergency department visits for suspected tick exposure from syndromic surveillance data collected by the Infectious Disease Program at the Maine CDC.
The dataset contains the following measure:
Near real-time tickborne disease case incidence data are from the Maine CDC’s Infectious Disease Program’s notifiable diseases surveillance system. Population data used to calculate county-level rates are from the U.S. Census Bureau.
2019 to date
The Maine EPHT program receives daily data on tickborne diseases from the Infectious Disease Program at the Maine CDC.
The dataset contains the following measures, assessed at present (year-to-date):
Tickborne disease data are from the Maine CDC Division of Infectious Disease. Population data are from the U.S. census for state and county level analyses. Population data for town level analyses are from the Maine CDC’s Office of Data, Research, and Vital Statistics.
2001 - 2022
State, County, Town
