1850 Census (258) 1860 Census (92) 1870 Census (44) 1880 Census (32) 1890 Census (8) 1900 Census (14) 1910 Census (5) 1920 Census (27) 1930 Census (4) County Statewide (1) Alamance (12) Alexander (2) Alleghany (18) Anson (22) Ashe (70) Avery (1) Beaufort (30) Bertie (36) Bladen (3) Brunswick (13) Buncombe (15) Burke (22) Cabarrus (13) Caldwell (1)
They are a result of things people do to nature. Disease, it turns out, is largely an environmental issue. Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonotic â they originate in animals. And more than two-thirds of those originate in wildlife.
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and Europe, and one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the United States. Of cases reported to the United States CDC, the ratio of Lyme disease infection is 7.9 cases for every 100,000 persons.