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The article focuses on the veterinary medicine research about thelazia species found in a wild deer in southern England. The research assessed that 41.9 percent of the animals are prevalence of infection with the thelazia gulosa and thelazia skrjabini. The Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases of the Royal Veterinary College stresses that through the introduction of macrocyclic lactone endectocides like ivermectin, the percentage of infected animals decreases in 2004.

The article reports that R. Tabor, a Plant Health and Seeds Inspector, collected a sample of leaf galls containing living aphids in June 1973 from a bonsai Ulmus parvifolia at a nursery near Guildford, Surrey, that imports bonsai directly from Japan. The aphids were identified by Dr. H.L.G. Stroyan as Tetraneura akinire Sasaki, which infests two species of Ulmus in the Far East and also Ulmus campestris in several parts of southern Europe. This aphid migrates from Ulmus to the roots of several species of grasses including rice. A specimen bonsai bearing further galls was obtained from the same nursery for further checking, and on its leaves were found live specimens of another aphid, Tinocallis ulmiparvifoliae Mats., which is confined to Ulmus in Japan, Formosa and Australia. A visit to two bonsai nurseries revealed large numbers of yet a third aphid from Japan, Tinocallis zelkowae (Tak.), living on bonsai Zelkova serrata.

The study of a population of 208,000 in a Midlands district of England has shown the prevalence of idiopathic Parkinson's disease to be 108.4 per 100,000. This is comparable with past studies in Carlisle, England, Rochester, Minnesota, and South-West Finland. Parkinsonism associated with cerebrovascular disease is evidently recognised and differentiated by general practitioners; post-encephalitic parkinsonism is not encountered and drug-induced parkinsonism is not common in this district. The major functional disability of a carefully assessed randomly selected group was found to relate to walking and hygiene. Nevertheless, the essential physical needs of those with Parkinson's disease appear to be well met in general.