Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Harry Lyme

It has been suggested that the incidence of Lyme disease in the UK has been vastly underestimated (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/31/uk-lyme-disease-cases-may-be-three-times-higher-than-estimated). The disease is normally transmitted from deer to humans by biting ticks , so where the 2 species congregate is a good place (in the USA, it's under oak trees) for getting the infection. It has been estimated that there are circa 8000 cases of the disease in the UK but many doctors have little experience of the condition (which can be debilitating).

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.