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RALEIGH – Two cases of the tick-borne illness Lyme disease have been confirmed in Wake County.

The county's human services division and the North Carolina Division of Public Health Surveillance say that two residents were diagnosed in 2009 with laboratory-confirmed early Lyme disease.

Both cases are linked to the area because the patients said they didn't travel out of Wake County in the month before getting ill. According to the Centers for Disease Control, once two cases of the disease are confirmed in a county, the area is defined as an endemic for Lyme disease for surveillance purposes.

Four other counties, Wilkes, Wilson, Pitt and Carteret, reported one case each of the disease last year.