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July 29th, 2015
More than 600 cases of Lyme disease were reported in Canada in 2013 — a number that’s expected to rise to 10,000 in the next five years. Jim Wilson, president of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme), says global warming may be the reason so many ticks are moving to areas they couldn’t survive in before.
Debra Fraleigh, an articulate and caring individual who worked endlessly behind the scenes researching evidence, evaluating government and medical leadership statements on Lyme disease, and then writing excellent letters of rebuttal, lost her battle with cancer on June 9th, 2017. Debra, like far too many Canadians also battled Lyme disease and then, battled the medical…
December 31, 2014 Belleville News By Diane Sherman Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, introduced Bill C-442, June 2012, to stimulate debate about prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and research on Lyme disease, a disease caused by insect bites, primarily ticks. December 16 the bill became law: An Act respecting a Federal…
Government has violated its duty to release information about incidents that put health and safety at risk, study finds
“In today’s podcast, Sarah speaks with Victoria Sanderson about her exciting new research into Lyme disease testing at the University of Guelph. Sanderson is a current medical student and previously completed her Master’s degree at the University of Guelph and became interested in Lyme disease after seeing how much the disease impacted her mother’s life and…
It’s difficult to watch MIke Zettek, from Kakabeka Falls, Ont., about 30 km west of Thunder Bay, climb up a set of stairs The Lyme disease he believes he contracted in June 2014 caused painful swelling in his left knee. Zettek said in October his knee swelled up in a matter of hours but doctors at the emergency department…
Re: Decisions; A 35-year-old man with a positive Lyme test result from a private laboratory Debra L. Fraleigh, Co-founder Ontario Lyme Alliance This fictional practice case scenario needs to have some modicum of realism if it is intended to be useful to inform diagnostic and treatment decisions. The patient, who believes he could have Lyme…
