Dr. John Lambert:

I mentioned this before when asked this question. I see patients who get a tick-borne infection and are unwell with it years later. I see farmers, forestry workers and people from all over Ireland who get bitten by a tick, get a short course of antibiotics and come to see me two years later with many of the same symptoms in illnesses. There are other conditions. The whole issue that is being brought up now is that there is a big population in Ireland of patients with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, ME. I hypothesise that some kind of infection might have triggered this condition years ago that we have yet to identify. Lyme disease is one of them. There are other tick-borne infections and now we have long Covid. No money goes into Lyme research. I hope the money that goes into long Covid research will benefit patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, ME, fibromyalgia and Lyme disease.