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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Might the number with Lyme disease be higher than suspected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It does not explain it. I am unsure what the sample size was in the 1991 study but, considering that a rate of 9.75% was identified among a random sample of blood donors, could one extrapolate that, given a population of 4 million, many people may have Lyme disease and be unaware of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: However, they can have Lyme disease.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If someone has not had symptoms to date, can those symptoms appear at a later stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Where are the tests done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If somebody goes to his or her GP with symptoms and thinks it might be Lyme disease, can he or she ask for a test? Is that person entitled to a test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is there a waiting list for the test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The figures where-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It seems strange, then, that people are going out of the country to get a diagnosis. Do we know how many patients are diagnosed and treated by a GP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Professor Butler think it would be useful to capture those in order to get-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Professor Butler not think it would be fairly simple to capture those numbers from the GPs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Why is that? Is it down to the GPs' unwillingness to do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Can I suggest an attempt on the part of GPs to capture that information? If we want to allay concerns about this we must get to the bottom of it. We have many other issues to deal with within and without the Joint Committee on Health. We want to find out how many people in the country have Lyme disease and how many people are being treated. Unless we have the information it cannot be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many people have been diagnosed with Lyme disease overseas and have had that diagnosis overturned here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We need the numbers in order to be able to support what Professor Butler is saying. It is really important that we have them. People need to know. People are paying thousands of euro to go abroad to get tests. Professor Butler just said that people are being misdiagnosed. We need to know. As I said earlier, I met a woman who out of desperation is packing bags in SuperValu to get the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: However, the witnesses cannot tell me the number-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: However, the witnesses do not have the numbers to back it up. They are asking us to trust them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is why it is serious-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----and it is really important that we have those figures. Can the witnesses submit them at a later date? Is there information from which figures can be extrapolated and presented to the committee?