Are incidences of Lyme disease recorded?
A.8 – In Scotland, Lyme disease is classed as a notifiable disease. This requires that notification should take place on the basis of clinical suspicion; a diagnosis does not have to be laboratory confirmed. In the British Armed Forces, Lyme disease is likewise a reportable condition. For those employed as zookeepers, forestry workers, or in certain other types of employment, notification to the Health & Safety Executive is required. Throughout the rest of the UK a voluntary monitoring scheme is in place by which The Health Protection Agency’s Lyme Reference Section reports only laboratory confirmed cases of Lyme disease directly to the Zoonoses Surveillance Unit.