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BY SUE-ANN LEVY, TORONTO SUN May 26, 2015
TORONTO – I heard from Veronique Ayling first thing on the Sunday morning my story appeared about chronic Lyme disease victim Paige Spencer.
Like the 20-year-old Spencer, the mother of three was left undiagnosed with Lyme disease and even refused the traditional treatment — doxycycline — by the Canadian Armed Forces, with which she’d made her career for 16 years.
Tick, tick, tick …
On Thursday, February 27th, 2014 Elizabeth May’s office received a letter from the Canadian Medical Assocation president, Louis Hugo Francescutti, throwing their support behind Bill C-442. Earlier the College of Family Physicians of Canada had thrown their support behind the Bill as well. The Bill will be up for 1st reading and debate on Monday,…
After much negative media attention in 2008 relative to the poor quality of health care relating to Lyme disease in BC, the provincial Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Health had to act. Also, that year questions posed by the opposition critic David Cubberley to the Minister of Health proved to be difficult for…
Reprints or correspondence: Mr. Jim Wilson, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation, 2495 Reece Rd., Westbank, BC V4T 1N1, Canada. TO THE EDITOR — The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation has several concerns with the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Lyme disease clinical practice guidelines [1]. I shall elaborate. Throughout the guidelines, the erythema migrans rash is referred…
Because the patients are contested “They immediately may send the patient to test for all manner of serious immune and neurologic disease, not realizing that Lyme disease itself may cause profound immune and neurologic conditions if it is not treated at once.” Read full article
Published in the Chronicle Herald newspaper December 21, 2018 by Jane Bailey The following statement is false. You can only get Lyme disease from a black-legged tick. The next two statements are true. You can pass Lyme disease to your unborn baby. Your baby can suffer very serious adverse outcomes, including from miscarriage, stillbirth, and…
