Climatesense: Killarney National Park Lyme Disease

Killarney National Park Lyme Disease

The programme was made by farranfore based cameraman and irish tv producer james pembroke and his son david and it will be presented by brian hurley. It is currently the fastest growing vector borne disease in the world.

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Its also emerged that kerry is one of the counties with the highest number of diagnosed cases.

Killarney national park lyme disease. There is a known infestation of ticks in killarney national park the opening of irelands first dedicated lyme disease resource centre has been welcomed. Kerry county council is to erect signs on council owned land in the vicinity of forest walks and at the entrance to the killarney national park warning of the possibility of contracting lyme disease. A killarney woman has called for more awareness and more gp training on lyme disease after it emerged that theres been a ten fold increase in incidence of the disease in ireland.

Labour senator marie moloney recently highlighted concerns over the high rate of lyme disease in the killarney area which. Paul doherty who is suffering from lyme disease at home with helene in cromane. People need to know about this.

Lyme disease or borreliosis is a bacterial infection passed to humans through a tick bite. It will be housed at the mater hospitalucd catherine mccauley educational and research centre in dublin and the function of the centre will be to advance the understanding of tick borne infections across ireland and the european union as a whole. The bacteria is shaped like a corkscrew called a spirochete which enables it to burrow through body tissue which most other bacteria wouldnt be able to penetrate.

Councillors are calling for signs to be erected in the national park to highlight the potential risk of lyme diseaselyme disease is an infection that is transmitted by a bite from an infected tic calls for lyme disease risk signs in parks killarney advertiser. There are no signs there in the park warning about ticks and lyme disease the local said. Its been known for about seven years now.

Over 1000 wild deer provide a picture postcard scene in killarney national park but a kerry senator has claimed that the iconic animals present a serious threat to human health. Dr healy was speaking in a documentary living with lyme disease which was filmed mostly in killarney national park and is due to be screened on irish tv in the coming weeks. The concerned local spoke exclusively to the killarney advertiser this week explaining why it was so important to get the message out there.

Something had to be done. Paul is hoping through an online go fundme campaign to get to germany for life changing radical treatment fergus.

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