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- Seanad: Infectious Diseases (22 Oct 2009)
Áine Brady: ...I thank Senator Ross raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to outline to this House the importance attached to the issue by the Department of Health and Children and the HSE. Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infection caused by a spiral shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that is transmitted to humans by bites from ticks infected with...
- Seanad: Infectious Diseases (22 Oct 2009)
Shane Ross: This matter concerns the need for the Minister for Health and Children to make Lyme disease a notifiable illness in Ireland, thus increasing the specialist medical help available to sufferers as well as publicising the risk from the disease. I raise this issue because one of my constituents has suffered from this disease over a long period of time. Her frustration has been painful, both...