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Appendix 1: Borrelia burgdorferi
Pages 143-148

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... Approximately half of all new infections are assumed to occur in people born in the region and half in migrants into the area. Disease Scenarios For the purposes of the calculations in this report, the committee assumed that 90% of people newly infected with borrelia experience acute manifestations and seek treatment.
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... COST INCURRED BY DISEASE Health care costs are incurred through diagnostic evaluation, physician visits, and antibiotics. Table A1-3 summarizes the health care costs incurred by borrelia infections.
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... burgdorferi were implemented today and the vaccine was 100% efficacious and utilized by 100% of the target population, the annualized present value of the health care costs saved would be $2 million. Using committee assumptions of less-than-ideal efficacy and utilization and including time and monetary costs until a vaccine program is implemented, the annualized present value of the health care costs saved would be $410,000.
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... Advance Report of Final Natality Statistics, 1994. Monthly Vital Statistics Report 1996; 44.
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