Lyme Disease
(asked on 14th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the recorded number of occurrences of Lyme disease in the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years; whether they have estimated the extent of under-reporting; and what assessment they have made of the number of cases of Lyme disease in (1) the United States, and (2) other member countries of the European Union, in the latest year for which they have information.
The recorded number of occurrences of Lyme disease in the United Kingdom from 2004-2012 is shown in the following table:
Year of report | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
Lyme disease cases in UK
| 586 | 693 | 940 | 1,027 | 1,098 | 1,093 | 1,213 | 1,189 | 1,163 |
Data from 2013 is not currently available.
It is estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 additional cases of Lyme disease may occur each year in England and Wales.
The recorded number of occurrences of Lyme disease in the United States in each of the past 10 years is shown in the following table:
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
TOTAL USA | 19,804 | 23,305 | 19,931 | 27,444 | 28,921 | 29,959 | 22,561 | 24,364 | 22,014 | 27,203 |
Source: CDC http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/index.html
Notes:
The recorded number of occurrences of Lyme disease are not systematically reported. A paper in 2009 provided an estimate of 65,000 cases (Hubalek 2009 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19367096)
Data on the number of occurrences of Lyme disease in other European Union member states is not held.