Number of tick bite visits to ED by region U.S. 2019

From 2017 to 2019, the Northeast consistently reported the most visits to the emergency department (ED) due to tick bites. In 2019, roughly every 3 in 5 tick bite visits to the ED in the United States were reported from the Northeast region. This statistic shows the number of ED visits for tick bites in the United States from 2017 to 2019, by region.

Number of emergency department (ED) visits for tick bites in the United States from 2017 to 2019, by region

Characteristic	2017	2018	2019
Northeast	33,260	26,086	34,674
Midwest	7,825	8,047	8,751
Southeast	7,026	7,719	8,294
South Central	934	899	942
West	1,113	1,810	1,984

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April 2021

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United States

Survey time period

January 2017 to December 2019

Supplementary notes

"HHS Region = U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) geographic regions."
"The Northeast region includes HHS Region 1 (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), HHS Region 2 (New Jersey and New York), and HHS Region 3 (District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia); the Southeast region includes HHS Region 4 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee); the South Central region includes HHS Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas); the Midwest region includes HHS Region 5 (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) and HHS Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska); the West region includes HHS Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and Utah), HHS Region 9 (Arizona, California, and Nevada), and HHS Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington)."

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