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LYME DISEASE
Why do Britains European neighbours have so many times more cases of Lyme Disease?
In 2007, the late Professor Klaus Kurtenbach of Bath University told the BBC, "In France they have diagnosed 10 times as many cases as here; yet we've found the same number of ticks here carrying the disease." (6) In 2005 The Times reported of Dr Darrel Ho-Yen who was head of the Scottish reference lab for Lyme disease, He believes that the known number of proven cases should be multiplied by ten .(7) Applying this to Health Protection Agency figures; since 2002 - 3,000 to 10,000 cases annually of Lyme disease were not recorded and may have gone undiagnosed and untreated in Britain.(5)