Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Provision of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors: Discussion
6:20 pm
Professor Jonathan Hourihane:
As far as I am aware, Emma's was the only death of a child in the past eight years but I am aware of an adult who was being treated by a kinesiologist and who died of a peanut allergy and of a woman who died in Mayo in approximately 2004 from a shellfish allergy. They are rare deaths but they are only the documented ones. It is certain there are more deaths.