Work has been progressing over the summer by researchers from the University of Aberdeen and the Macaulay Institute but help is still needed!

They say:
We would like to thank all the members of the MCofS who emailed or wrote to us last year telling us about their tick experiences and cases of Lyme disease. This information helped us go out over the summer and collect ticks from 16 sites throughout Scotland, from small mammals, birds, and deer and from the vegetation. In fact over 30,000 ticks were counted this summer! Over the winter the data is being analysed and the ticks examined in the laboratory. We are aiming to use this information to link together the factors which determine the distribution of ticks and cases of Lyme disease around Scotland.

We would like to now appeal for anyone who has been unfortunate enough to contract Lyme disease either this summer or in any previous year to contact us to fill in a short survey.
The questionnaire can be found at www.macaulay.ac.uk/lyme
or please email marianne.james@abdn.ac.uk
or write to Marianne James, Zoology Building, University of Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB11 8BU.

Thank you very much for your help.

Marianne James