Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with Lyme disease in each of the last five years.
The total number of laboratory confirmed Lyme disease cases for each of the last five years is shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Total number of laboratory confirmed Lyme disease cases for each of the last five years:
Year | Total number of Lyme disease cases laboratory confirmed |
2010 | 905 |
2011 | 959 |
2012 | 1,040 |
2013 | 878 |
2014 | 735 |