Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed)

12:15 pm

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Notwithstanding the arrows being thrown around with regard to particular institutions, how would one conduct a test for Lyme disease if there were no antibodies? The witnesses have spent the past number of hours explaining that one will get a diagnosis if one is testing for the disease itself or the body's reaction to antibodies. How can somebody go to Timbuktu and get tested and receive a positive diagnosis without one of these two things?

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