A consultant in public health medicine with the HSE's Health Protection Surveillance Centre has advised that the public should prevent tick bites in order to avoid Lyme disease.
Dr Paul McKeown said that people are most likely to be bitten by ticks in areas in the South and West of the country.Dr McKeown advised people to wear long trousers and long sleeved shirts if walking through grassy areas, and check for ticks after a day out. He said many people who are infected with Lyme diesase - a bacterial infection spread by ticks - develop a distinctive 'bullseye' skin rash.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said that anyone with this rash should contact their GP because the disease can be treated effectively with antibiotics at this stage. Dr McKeown said there are a number of infectious diesase consultants in Ireland and every major hospital uses internationally recognised tests to identify lyme diesase, so identification of the dieases is 'never that problematic.'
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