Disease Warning After Tick Bite

Summary


A Woman who contracted Lyme disease after going on a picnic in Leigh Woods is warning people to take care in woodland areas.

Physiotherapist Hannah Douglas, 34, from St Paul's developed a rash, then a fever and finally joint pain before she remembered that she had been bitten by a tick weeks before and her symptoms could be Lyme disease.

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Disease Warning After Tick Bite

Without treatment the disease becomes chronic, and can cause long- term fatigue, muscle and joint pain and memory loss.

Hannah, who works at Bristol Royal Infirmary, is now on a...

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