Avril Lavigne: a new voice for Lyme Disease?
Avril Lavigne: a new voice for Lyme Disease?
The Canadian singer is attracting attention for announcing she has Lyme Disease. Su-Ling Goh spoke to others who are praising her honesty.
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OPINION: We need to do more in Nova Scotia regarding Lyme and tick-borne diseases
By Donna Lugar in the Chronicle Herald, Sept. 11, 2018 … It is unfortunate that Nova Scotia’s top doctor feels that what is being done is enough. Yet there are still doctors in this province who don’t think Lyme is anything to worry about, are not aware of the large variety of potential co-infections, are…
Winery owner building research centre for Lyme Disease
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ByJoanna Frketich The founder of an Ontario winery with area connections is working to create a research facility for Lyme disease with the hope it will one day test and treat patients. Rossana Di Zio Magnotta saw firsthand the lack of knowledge in Canada on how to diagnose and treat the debilitating disease as her…
Chronic Lyme disease – does it exist?
“Her symptoms started quickly: neck pain, extreme fatigue and intermittent fever and chills. The woman had been healthy until then, and since she enjoyed gardening and landscaping at her rural Maryland home, she wondered if a tick bite might have given her Lyme disease although she had not noticed the telltale bull’s-eye skin lesion. Her…
Promising treatment brings new hope for patients with chronic Lyme disease
Nov. 20, 2020 KENDAL, ONT. — Kevin Matthews was a healthy 58 year old trying to ease into a slower lifestyle, but things took a turn on a trip in 2017. That was the year he was hunting near Kingston, Ont. and was bitten by a tick. He recalls extracting the arthropod from his stomach,…
Tick-borne disease case numbers: What do they really mean?
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By Doug Hartline, Health Director on March 5, 2014 When you see the statistic that Redding had only 10 Lyme disease cases in 2012, you might ask, How can that be? To help put the yearly Redding case numbers in perspective, recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that there are approximately…
YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi
Oct. 2020 PLOS PATHOGENS Abstract Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen causes persistent infection by evading the host immune response. Differential expression of the surface-exposed lipoprotein VlsE that undergoes antigenic variation is a key immune evasion strategy employed by B. burgdorferi. Most studies focused on the mechanism of VlsE antigen variation, but little is known…