Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Lyme Disease: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. John Lambert:

I have not seen the report. In terms of the evidence base, we go back to the 2006 IDSI document on the treatment of Lyme guidelines. As far as I am concerned, we keep on going back to the same poor science. The WHO has produced new recommendations and as many as 800 articles show there is a persistence of chronic Lyme disease. I would want to make sure that all of those scientific articles are included in the publication.