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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disease Management (23 Oct 2018)

Simon Harris: ...evidence but also looking at what has been done across the water in the UK. We will have the basis of information next month, which will enable us to make informed decisions in this regard. Lyme disease can be very successfully treated in many cases using common antibiotics. These antibiotics are effective at clearing the rash and they help to prevent the development of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disease Management (23 Oct 2018)

John McGuinness: ...this. We tend to do an awful lot of reports and we do not learn from other countries. I have highlighted the fact that France seems to be leading the way but Canada has a similar approach to this disease. In New York the same thing is happening, with a cross-departmental approach to solving the issue of Lyme disease. If all of these countries are taking roughly the same initiative and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disease Management (23 Oct 2018)

John McGuinness: 69. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to bring forward a Lyme disease strategy to help those suffering from the condition. [43600/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disease Management (23 Oct 2018)

John McGuinness: Writing in July 2018, Kerry Lawless outlined her experience of suffering from Lyme disease:My life became this tiny thing. Someone who had worked hard, played hard, travelled extensively, loved large, lived life to the full. I became a shadow, housebound, a virtual recluse with one or two good friends to sustain me... I thought about ending it all. There have been regular protests outside...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disease Management (23 Oct 2018)

Simon Harris: I have received correspondence from the Deputy on this issue on which he has advocated strongly. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has a Lyme disease sub-committee which has been tasked with producing a report which covers awareness of Lyme disease among clinicians and members of the public; identification of best international practice in raising awareness about Lyme disease;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disease Management (23 Oct 2018)

John McGuinness: ...worn out. Beat down. Broke. Defeated. I couldn’t face another ten years". If one listens to the reply he has just given, however, while work is ongoing, the campaign for the recognition of Lyme disease has gone on for years but little or nothing has been done. While the Minister is waiting for the report, the fact of the matter is that in France the Government has a model of...