(I.) 24 March 2014: "Recently,
B. miyamotoi belonging to the relapsing fever group and transmitted by the same
Ixodes species has been involved
in human disease in Russia, the USA and the Netherlands...
The genotypes of all
B. miyamotoi detected
in French ticks and rodents were perfectly identical to genotypes already described in ticks from
Western Europe, and to the genotype recently isolated from a sick person in the Netherlands....
...ticks could simultaneously transmit
B. miyamotoi and Lyme disease spirochetes (
B. garinii in our case) to humans. This raises the problem of co-infection in humans, a poorly studied issue but with strong potential implications and relevance for public health."
https://web.archive.org/web/20151025121237/http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/7/1/233
(II.) 11 May 2015: Borrelia miyamotoi found in
Norway -- and other European countries including
Sweden and
Denmark.
https://web.archive.org/web/2015102...ter/flatt/innenriks/forskning/helse/39131438/
(III.) 29 July 2015: A deadly borrelia bacteria--
borrelia miyamotoi--found in
Denmark can now too be found in
Sweden… Because symptoms caused by borrelia miyamotoi (neurological problems, headache, fatigue, fever, joint pain) can differ from symptoms caused by other [European] varieties of borrelia, borrelia miyamotoi may be overlooked by doctors… Borrelia miyamotoi was found in
Russia in 2011 and in the
US in 2013…
http://web.archive.org/web/20151025112718/http://www.aftonbladet.se/sommar/article21184830.ab
(IV) Other borrelia miyamotoi affected countries?? [EDIT]
Also, July 2015 (P.J. Krause et. al.): "The geographic range of
B. miyamotoi infection in tick vectors is much broader than the countries where human infection has been reported.
B. miyamotoi has been found in ticks from Asia (Japan and central Russia), North America (the United States and Canada) and Europe (Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland).
It likely coexists with
B. burgdorferi or other Lyme disease
Borrelia species throughout its distribution...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X15002943
(V.)
15% of cases of borrelia/neuroborreliosis in the UK are/were acquired abroad....
"Of cases with a definite travel history, most have been acquired in the
United States, France, Germany, Scandinavia and other northern and central European countries - and most occurred in holidaymakers.
In recent years, there have been greater numbers of cases acquired in central and eastern Europe, reflecting increased tourism to and immigration from these areas."
http://web.archive.org/web/20150617152240/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lyme-borreliosis-epidemiology/lyme-borreliosis-epidemiology-and-surveillance
(VI.) UK guidelines for borrelia state that that longer courses of antibiotics and retreatment may be necessary for neuroborreliosis.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...reatment/lyme-disease-diagnosis-and-treatment
(VII.) (Post 1 link archived:
http://web.archive.org/web/20151025...d-by-ticks-found-similar-to-Lyme-disease.html)