Hanneke, I think you'd be the perfect person to contribute to an article. Experience counts for everything.

I can't say I know more than GPs! I think we vets have probably seen more cases of tick-borne disease than most GPs just because, by nature, animals spend more time in areas inhabited by ticks and are the desired hosts. I regularly pluck ticks off animals so it brings tick borne disease more forward in my thinking. The drugs available to prevent ticks (and so the number of studies) have become much better recently, possibly due to the growth of the market due to a relaxation in pet travel rules and due to the increasing number of tick attachments. I am also a member of the BMC who, I have to say, have been very good and put out a lot of information in climbing guides etc.