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Fern health risk ?
martin wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:01:48 +0100, klara wrote: In message , Jaques d'Alltrades writes Depends where you are. If there are deer about, Lyme disease is not rare. Very often it is not recognised though. (And near here we have red, roe and muntjack, and I've seen fallow and sika not ten miles away. Not a lot of bracken though.) I lived in the Eastern US in the sixties, and there was very little Lyme disease there then. In the years since then it has proliferated - I know at least a half-dozen people who have had it and were incapacitated for long periods, including two teenagers who spent a year each in wheelchairs. So, yes, worth worrying about. ( There were about 250 cases reported in UK last year, it's often not recognised by the professionals. Part of the increase reported is due to increasing awareness of Lyme's disease. As I said, why do people worry? Even if it is seriously under reported, as a risk in the UK, Lyme disease hardly registers. Even in parts of the US where it is more common, it still isn't worth worrying about compared with a lot of other risks. -- Larry Stoter |
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