For two consecutive years, the CDC has not reported a single case of
Lyme disease in Georgia.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Tables (Morbidity) for Georgia:

As of week 52 of 2000 (ending December 30, 2000), 0 provisional case
reports for Lyme disease in Georgia were accepted and reported
by the CDC for 2000.

For 1999, 0 case reports for Lyme disease in Georgia have been
accepted and reported by the CDC.

Sources:

CDC: MMWR Morbidity Tables – See Table II, part 2 for Lyme disease
http://wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrmorb.asp

CDC provisional cases for Lyme disease for 2000
(week ending 30 December 2000 – see second image of Table II)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4952md.htm

CDC MMWR:Notice to Readers: Final 1999 Reports of Notifiable Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4937a5.htm

CDC MMWR Morbidity Tables –
Provisional cases of LD for 1999, week ending Jan 1, 2000
http://wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_reps.asp?mmwr_table=2B&mmwr_year=1999…

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Lyme Disease Reported to CDC by State Health Department, 1982-1999:

In 1998 5 cases of Lyme disease were reported for Georgia.

CDC: Reported Cases of Lyme Disease, by State, 1989-1998, August 1999
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/Ldss2_aug99.htm

Georgia has reported 1,205 Lyme disease cases from 1982 to 1997.

CDC: Lyme disease cases reported by State Health Departments, 1982-1997
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/ld82_97.pdf

Including the 0 cases for 1999 and the 0 cases for 2000,
the grand total of CDC reported Lyme disease for Georgia,
for the years 1982-2000, is 1,210 cases.

NOTE: In 1989 the state of Georgia reported 715 cases of Lyme disease,
4th in the nation behind New York, Connecticut, and Wisconsin.