Lyme Disease in Construction: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  Construction workers who work outdoors are at increased risk of Lyme disease. You can get Lyme disease after a deer tick feeds on you. The deer tick is found in most of the United States. But the Lyme disease problem is worst in northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and north-central states: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Doctors on Long Island, New York, tested 396 building trades workers and found 43 had Lyme disease. Three of them had the disease long enough to need intravenous antibiotics for 6 weeks, costing thousands of dollars each. The rate of infection among the construction workers who worked outdoors on Long Island - 13 percent - was twice the rate for the whole Long Island population. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Construction Industry Disease Vectors Insecta Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Disease-control Disease-prevention Disease-transmission Disease-vectors Infection-control Insect-venom Insects Outdoors Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039603
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2002 May; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Lyme disease in construction: hazard alert
• End Date:
  20050630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a85a31ef88e3f7eb2198e3d47321746f9f3fb596987fb1fee8618a45e5cc8ca644416f183516dd70aab452531c5c7dfabf73d8e6405cbb77bfab34d767213406
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213088/cdc_213088_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 44.36 KB ]