Wednesday, August 18, 2010

How Much Lyme Disease is in Canada?

Yesterday I went to the lecture about lyme disease from Dr. Murakami in Nanaimo and was surprised how few people were there. It seemed that at least half of them came because they have Lyme disease. Some with severe symptoms.

I was curious and checked on google how many citizens are actually looking under 'lyme disease canada' ... about 510.000.

On the website www.cps.ca was written 'Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infection in North America and Europe, but it is not common in Canada.'

Dr. Murakami had a different opinion. He said that it is very strange to have south of the Canada/USA boarder a lot of cases, mainly in the East and West, and North of the border only 6-7 per province per year.

There are Websites that write the number of Lyme cases is on the rise.

It seems that the population in Europe, at least in Germany, gets educated about lyme disease. I was 1999 with my grandsons in Austria and both refused to go for a walk in the forest because of the lyme disease danger.

Listening to the lecture yesterday I wondered what might happen here because in Canada many people go camping and are in the forest.

I really don't know whether the warm weather might cause more cases because in Germany it can be pretty cold during Winter.

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Anna Christine
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