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Mellissa Dzinzi

Woman's battle with invisible illness that leaves her exhausted and in pain after insect bite six years ago

A man will be walking from his home in Leeds to Bath in a bid to raise money towards his girlfriend’s Lyme Disease treatment.

From May 16, Nathaniel Pells will walk an average of 28.5miles a day for seven days from Alwoodley to reach India Matthews’s home 200 miles away.

The couple met in 2016 as they were backpacking through Southeast Asia. India, then 18, was bitten by an insect in a restaurant in Thailand and has been struggling with Lyme Disease ever since.

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