Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Lyme Disease: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The medical and scientific communities deal with matters like this every day and, please God, most of the time they get them right. There is evidence on this and it is not just anecdotal. The evidence is from around the world. Is there something about this chronic condition that is different and makes it harder for the standard analytical approach taken by these bodies to recognise it?