Lyme disease in British Columbia: Are we really missing an epidemic?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The risk of Lyme disease depends on climate, geography, the abundance of specific insect vec- tors, and human interaction with these. In BC, Ixodes pacificus, the primary tick vector for the cause- ative spirochete, Borrelia burgdor- feri, has consistently been found in low numbers in populous areas, and rates of infection in this tick remain at less than 1%. Correspondingly, rates of human cases of Lyme dis- ease in BC are less than 0.5 per 100 000 per year; this is similar to rates reported in US states with envi- ronmental epidemiology like BC's and considerably less than in high endemic areas of the eastern United States (29 per 100 000). There is no evidence to support an epidemic of Lyme disease in BC. Responses to a recent survey indicate that physi- cians generally are aware of the low but real risk of Lyme disease, know to treat patients with clinical symp- toms, and understand that Lyme dis- ease is preventable and treatable. Public health authorities will contin- ue to remind residents and visitors to BC of the simple measures they can take to prevent tick bites and ex - posure, as well as which early signs and symptoms should lead them to seek appropriate medical treatment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".