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A Hampshire couple who spent 10-years and a £100,000 diagnosing their daughter's serious illness say more must be done to counter Lyme Disease. Kellie Maher now needs wheelchairs and mobility scooters to get around after the NHS failed to spot the illness. The condition is spread by ticks found in the New Forest, Wiltshire and Berkshire. Today, patients from the south were in Westminster to demand better testing, and the Public Health Laboratories at Porton Down near Salisbury confirmed they are now looking at that. Our health correspondent David Fenton reports.
