Surveillance of Lyme disease and other diseases transmitted by the Ixodes scapularis tick: 2014
In 2014, 127 cases of Lyme disease were reported to public health authorities, including 66 cases that were acquired in Québec.
During that same year, the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec received 2,549 Ixodes scapularis ticks from Québec, primarily from the Montérégie, Montréal, Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec, Lanaudière, Laurentides and Estrie regions.
Lastly, active surveillance in 2014 identified three new endemic sites for Lyme disease, all in Montérégie.