Tickborne disease awareness and protective practices among U.S. Forest Service employees from the upper Midwest, USA

Table 2 Reported tick-borne disease history among U.S. Forest Service employees

Item	n	Response	Frequency (%)
Ever diagnosed with a TBD by a medical provider?	95	Yes	25 (26)
	95	No	70 (74)
	25	If “Yes”, which diseases?^a
		Lyme disease	25 (100)
		Anaplasmosis	3 (3)
		Ehrlichiosis	5 (5)
		Babesiosis	2 (2)
		Other	1 (1)
	25	If “Yes”, about how many separate diagnoses?
		1	14 (56)
		2	9 (36)
		3–4	0 (0)
		5+	2 (8)
	25	If “Yes,” did you receive this diagnosis while employed at your current occupation?
		Yes	22 (88)
		No	3 (12)
Are you currently being treated for TBD?	93	Yes	5 (5)
Are you currently being treated for TBD?	93	No	88 (95)

Note: Variation in sample sizes is due to non-responses by some respondents
^aRespondents that answered “Yes” to the first item were presented with the list of diseases as shown and were able to select more than one; the Other response was a free response, for which the one respondent entered Bartonellosis. Of note in Wisconsin, anaplasmosis is still commonly called ehrlichiosis, as it was originally named [33], which may account for the higher number of reported cases of ehrlichiosis than anaplasmosis

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