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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Regina Doherty: Notwithstanding the arrows being thrown around with regard to particular institutions, how would one conduct a test for Lyme disease if there were no antibodies? The witnesses have spent the past number of hours explaining that one will get a diagnosis if one is testing for the disease itself or the body's reaction to antibodies. How can somebody go to Timbuktu and get tested and receive a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Regina Doherty: ...out the results are negative. Is there a common reason for this? I may have misunderstood an earlier response, but, as I understand it, according to Dr. McKeown, there is what is called chronic Lyme disease. However, according to Dr. Cryan, there can be no such disease if there are no antibodies. If antibodies are detected, there is such a thing as chronic Lyme disease. If antibodies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Regina Doherty: ...if my questions have been asked by previous speakers. I was struck by the differences between the figures provided by Dr. Bonner and Dr. Cryan on the number of patients who were diagnosed with Lyme disease last year. Will the witnesses explain the difference between their figures? Both Dr. Bonner and Dr. Cryan suggested that Lyme disease is underdiagnosed. Why is that the case? Is it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 258. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to Lyme disease, where treatment is available here; and if he will provide a geographical report in tabular form. [32659/13]