In the meantime, thank you so much for being here today. It has enormous meaning. Thank you.
So it is expanding across the country.
You need to know what the dimensions of the problem are to fight it.
They can't afford it because insurance won't cover it, or they've aged out of insurance.
I really congratulate you for opening it up to all tick-borne diseases.
Thank you, each of you, for your testimony.
There are about 40,000 cases of Lyme disease reported nationally each year.
I'm not a scientist, and I'm not a doctor. I'm not a researcher.
Do you think that habitat control measures are a viable solution here?
In your view, what can be done to increase the reporting, the reliability and the completeness of reporting?
Because it can be not only less useful or useless, but also potentially dangerous.