Lyme Disease Incidence Rates by State, 2004-2008*

State	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Alabama	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1
Alaska	0.5	0.6	0.4	1.5	0.9
Arizona	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0
Arkansas	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
California	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Colorado	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Connecticut	38.5	51.7	51.0	87.3	78.2
Delaware	40.8	76.7	56.5	82.7	88.4
District of Columbia	2.9	1.7	10.7	19.7	12.0
Florida	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.4
Georgia	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4
Hawaii	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Idaho	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.6	0.3
Illinois	0.7	1.0	0.9	1.2	0.8
Indiana	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.9	0.7
Iowa	1.7	3.0	3.3	4.1	2.8
Kansas	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.6
Kentucky	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1
Louisiana	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Maine	17.1	18.7	25.6	40.2	59.2
Maryland	16.0	22.1	22.2	45.8	31.0
Massachusetts	23.9	36.3	22.2	46.3	60.9
Michigan	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.8
Minnesota	20.1	17.9	17.7	23.8	20.0
Mississippi	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
Missouri	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Montana	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.4	0.6
Nebraska	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.4	0.4
Nevada	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.3
New Hampshire	17.4	20.3	46.9	68.1	92.0
New Jersey	31.0	38.6	27.9	36.1	37.0
New Mexico	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2
New York	26.5	28.8	23.1	21.6	29.5
North Carolina	1.4	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.2
North Dakota	0.0	0.5	1.1	1.9	1.2
Ohio	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3
Oklahoma	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oregon	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.5
Pennsylvania	32.1	34.6	26.1	32.1	30.7
Rhode Island	23.0	3.6	28.8	16.7	17.7
South Carolina	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.3
South Dakota	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.4
Tennessee	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.5	0.1
Texas	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.4
Utah	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1
Vermont	8.0	8.7	16.8	22.2	53.1
Virginia	2.9	3.6	4.7	12.4	11.4
Washington	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3
West Virginia	2.1	3.4	1.5	4.6	6.6
Wisconsin	20.8	26.4	26.4	32.4	26.5
Wyoming	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.2
*incidence=confirmed cases per 100,000 persons, calculated using July 1st population estimates for each year

 From http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_IncidenceRatesbyState20042008.htm

Use a chart or graph to represent some or all of the data. One way to start would be to only use states that had infections higher than 2.0.