Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease is now found on nearly every continent in temperate zones as
well as in some colder zones. At this time it is not found in tropical
areas. Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is an emerging infectious disease
caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to the genus
Borrelia.

[1] Borrelia burgdorferi is the predominant cause of Lyme disease in the
United States, whereas Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii are
implicated in most European cases.

Some agencies list Lyme Disease as the fifth or sixth most infectious
emerging disease worldwide. It is ubiquitous in the Northern Hemisphere.
Reports have reached my desk from Poland, Russia, China, Japan, Canada,
England, Italy, Crimea and Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Scotland just to
name a handful of countries.