§ Sir David PriceTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his latest estimate of the number of people in England and Wales infected by dog-related toxocariasis; and how serious he estimates the threat of this disease to be to human beings.
§ Mr. FreemanThe provisional number of laboratory reports in 1988 from England, Wales and (all) Ireland to the Public Health Laboratory Service's communicable disease surveillance centre is 54. The seriousness of toxocariasis varies from mild pulmonary symptoms and fever to permanent loss of vision.