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Vectorborne Disease Data Dashboard

This dashboard uses interactive data visualizations to display vector-borne disease case data (counts and incidence rates), emergency department visits for tick-related illness, and vector-borne pathogen (germ) data in mosquitoes and ticks.

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Vector-borne Disease Surveillance Reports

The Department conducts routine testing of mosquito pools and other sources of vector-borne illness. The results are published weekly during the annual peak period for vector-borne illnesses.

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CDC Continuing Education

Free Continuing Education credits available: CME, CNE, CPE, CHES, CPH

To register, please go to CDC TRAIN or click the links below.

Click here for instructions on how to obtain CE credits.

Lyme Disease

Diagnosis and Treatment of Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis (WB4504)

Viral Tickborne Disease Training (WB4496)

 

For NJ Public Health CEs:

Register on NJLMN, complete the CDC module(s), then e-mail your certificate(s) of completion.

Tickborne Diseases & Conditions

Tickborne diseases/conditions can be passed to humans by the bite of infected ticks. Ticks can be infected with bacteria, viruses, or parasites. The best defense is to take steps to avoid being bitten by infected ticks.

  1. Tickborne Disease Awareness Month
  2. Tickborne Diseases/Conditions in New Jersey
  3. Education Materials
  4. Tick Bite Bot
  5. Information for Public Health and Vector Control Professionals
  6. Laboratory Testing and Guidance

Tickborne Disease Awareness Month

May is Tickborne Disease Awareness Month! Below you can view the Governor's Proclamation. Be sure to follow us on social media for our campaign during the month of May. We will focus on topics such as prevention of tickborne diseases, how to remove a tick, and highlight important resources. 

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Tickborne Diseases/Conditions in New Jersey

Diseases that are spread to people by ticks in New Jersey include:

 

Return to the main vector-borne illness page (Fight the Bite, NJ!)

 

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Education Materials

 

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Tick Bite Bot
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Information for Public Health and Vector Control Professionals

 

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Laboratory Testing and Guidance

There are several emerging/reemerging or very rare arboviral diseases that are transmitted by mosquitoes or ticks that may impact NJ residents. Commercial testing may not be widely available, but specialized testing at public health laboratories can be provided for these diseases. Clinicians who would like to request arboviral disease testing should complete the Arboviral Testing Request worksheet and send via encrypted email to CDSVectorTeam@doh.nj.gov. Arboviral testing can be requested for patients who are hospitalized with neuroinvasive disease (e.g., encephalitis, meningitis, acute flaccid paralysis) of unknown etiology or, for patients presenting with a febrile illness of unknown etiology if an arboviral disease is suspected.

To request Zika virus testing, please click here.

To request Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis testing, please click here. 

 

Ill or Dead Bird Reports

NJDOH no longer tests birds for West Nile Virus, but if you find an ill or dead bird on your property, you should report it to your county mosquito control agency who will use that information as a part of  West Nile Virus mosquito surveillance efforts and the NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife.

For reports of sick or dead domestic poultry, including gamebirds, backyard poultry and exhibition poultry, please contact New Jersey Department of Agriculture immediately at (609) 671-6400.

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Last Reviewed: 4/25/2024