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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (10 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 182. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to assist persons living with chronic Lyme disease to avail of the long-term illness scheme or the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22182/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (10 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The term "chronic Lyme disease" is used by a small number of practitioners (often self-designated as “Lyme-literate physicians”) to describe patients whom they believe have persistent Borrelia burgdorferi infection, a condition they suggest requires long-term antibiotic treatment and may even be incurable. It is used in North America and, increasingly, in Europe as a diagnosis...

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