After reading this comment thread, i can attest that it's clearly not known enough in france indeed. From what i've read before (because i knew about Lyme), the

After reading this comment thread, i can attest that it's clearly not known enough in france indeed. From what i've read before (because i knew about Lyme), the only region affected by Lyme is nord-east of the country. We get tick bites whenever we go to south of France with my family, but so far nobody every got anything looking like Lyme.