Ticks back in the lymelight - Shooting UK
Twenty-six-year-old American supermodel Bella Hadid has thrown the bacterial tick-borne disease into focus after announcing being symptom-free from Lyme disease after suffering for 10 years. Ticks carrying Lyme disease are present in every part of the UK but are more prevalent in rural areas, and cases continue to rise. A study into the disease by the British Medical Journal of Global Health has found that there were 1,156 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK in 2021, and that figure is set to rise each year. It said that more than 14% of the world’s population may have had Lyme disease. Sta...