More than 14 percent of the world's population has had Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness, according to a major review of the available research published on Tuesday.
The condition is rarely fatal, but people bitten by an infected tick often get a rash and suffer flu-like symptoms including muscle and joint ache, headache, nausea, and vomiting.
To find out how common Lyme disease is across the world, the researchers pooled data from 89 studies., which causes the disease, was found in the blood of 14.5 percent of the nearly 160,000 total participants. "This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date systematic review of the worldwide" prevalence of the disease, the researchers said.rates were Eastern Asia with 15.9 percent, Western Europe with 13.5 percent, and Eastern Europe with 10.4 percent.Previous research has shown that the prevalence of tick-borne diseases has doubled in the last 12 years., animal migration, habitat loss, and"increasingly frequent pet contact", the study said.
It warned that the data could be skewed in regions where Lyme disease is endemic, because health workers are more likely to carry out regular antibody tests there compared to regions where it is less common. The study also said that research using an analytic technique called western blotting was more reliable and that its use"could significantly improve the accuracy" of future studies.
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