In legislature, Ontario’s Minister of Health is pushed for action to include stakeholders in a new direction for Lyme disease
Watch as MPP Mike Mantha questions Minister, and Minister’s response.
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Watch as MPP Mike Mantha questions Minister, and Minister’s response.
Posted September 28th, 2016 Written by Jenna Luché-Thayer Author info: Bio – Jenna Luché-Thayer’s expertise includes government transparency and accountability and the integration of marginalized groups. Luché-Thayer is informed by three decades of professional policy and grassroots experience in 40 countries. She has extensive experience in congressional relations, testimony and legislation. She has worked with governments,…
An investigational polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that detects the presence of a viral gene in Lyme disease–causing bacteria can distinguish between early and late infection, according to the results of a study that the authors describe as “systematic and comprehensive.” Read article
[CanLyme Note: Re: this statement, “Blacklegged ticks that can spread Lyme disease found in 4 areas of city”. This statement is misleading in that the ticks that transmit Lyme disease are moved around by birds, randomly. They are not only where they look for them or where they have been seen. Birds also can carry the…
Manotick News By Emma Jackson Veronique Ayling has been dreaming of her own cupcake shop for the better part of a decade. The Greely resident grew up in the Laurentians baking with her grandmother, but instead of opening her own shop she joined the Canadian Armed Forces, where she works in its investigations unit. But…
Scores of Lyme disease victims rallied today at the BC Legislature calling for better medical treatment.
[CanLyme note: Reuben Kaufman, PhD, is a long time Board member of CanLyme] By Sean McIntyre on March 23, 2016 – Gulf Islands Driftwood news With peak tick season upon the island, a Salt Spring-based researcher warns residents that a few basic precautions can prevent a world of grief. Reuben Kaufman has pulled, poked and probed…
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I have already written you about the ID doctor in my area and his potential to do great harm by refusing to see patients who have been diagnosed clinically when it clearly states that testing is verification only, yet I can not get in to see him….I want a doctor who knows about Lyme in my city, my province, my country. I want a doctor who knows more about Lyme then I do. I want to know that if my son shows symptoms I can get his congenital Lyme treated without going to the states, and being accused of Munchausers by Proxy by a CAS. I want the government to protect those who have already been neglected at best, abused most likely by the current medical system…I want my voice heard…so that more don’t die form the silence and ignorance
Amen, Diane. The only way to get this is to legislate the docs to force them to accept ILADS protocols. Ontario’s and Canada’s federal Lyme bills are bad bills and need to be scrapped. No teeth. We need bills like they have passed in New York State and Vermont that spell out in detail our right to the physician skills, protocols and testing standards that docs are currently withholding, and that remove sanctions of doctors who use a broader range of protocols. Forceful, specific legislation is the only way to do this. I have a meeting in June (been doing this for years) with my Ontario MPP to demand these things.