1986 is forty years ago. We have Lymes disease in Scotland (I know someone who has it), and a large deer population which has not been properly controlled with substantial remote areas. (Much smaller than the USA but big enough to be reservoirs for the disease.)
> 1986 is forty years ago.
Epidemiologically recent (and also dofm-recent because I'm old).
But the graphs typically show that Scotland ballooned in the last twenty years, from below a hundred a year into the thousands.
Apparently in the UK it is now mostly stable, so it is endemic in deer. Much more common in middle-aged people who are I guess more likely to walk the dog and be keen active gardeners.