§ Mr. Jonathan EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the current incidence of(a) Lyme's disease, (b) leptospirosis, (c) trichanella spiralis, (d) Q fever and (e) toxoplasmosis.
§ Mr. Sackville[holding answer 16 November 1992]: Laboratory reports to the Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre for England and Wales for these infections are as follows. It should be noted that the data are provisional and do not differentiate between indigenous and imported cases.
Disease Laboratory reports 1991 (a) lyme disease 39 (b) leptospirosis 30 (c) trichinosis 0 (d) Q fever 74 (e) toxoplasmosis1 635 1 A British Paediatric Surveillance Unit survey on congenital toxoplasmosis—the serious form of this condition—showed 14 symptomatic babies (0.1 year) in England and Wales for a 12 month period in 1989–90.