My brush with Lyme disease: how tick bites turned family day out to disaster

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My brush with Lyme disease: how tick bites turned family day out to disaster
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Our writer was not surprised by last week’s warning about increasing tick-borne infections

Three years ago, a few weeks after a family trip to the New Forest, I started to feel constantly nauseous and tired. A small red patch appeared on my ankle. I turned to the web for some answers, and Google turned up trumps: much to my horror, my symptoms matched some of those for the tick-borne bacterial infection Lyme disease.

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