How Lyme disease almost ended one doctor’s life

Aug 15th, Fox News : Dr. Neil Spector’s Lyme story on “Fox and Friends”
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Aug 15th, Fox News : Dr. Neil Spector’s Lyme story on “Fox and Friends”
[CanLyme Note: Any research that showed that infectious diseases such as Lyme disease have been found to have a role in developing dementia’s including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have been methodically ignored and dismissed. The emphasis on beta-amyloid plaques as the cause of AD has put us years behind. Plaques are simply a symptom, a result of…
Nataliia Rudenko Maryna Golovchenko Aleš Mokráček Natalja Piskunová Daniel Růžek Nadja Mallatová Libor Grubhoffer ABSTRACT Molecular analysis of a clinical sample confirmed the presence of Borrelia bissettii DNA in cardiac valve tissue from a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis. This evidence strongly supports the involvement of B. bissettii in Lyme disease in Europe. Read…
[CanLyme note: Here is a quote from the Lyme Disease Research Foundation at John Hopkins University that furthers our long held concerns about the current two-tier testing model in use Canada-wide having very serious limitations as a diagnostic tool, “Characteristics of seroconversion and implications for diagnosis of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome: acute and convalescent serology…
Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:237 Natalie Rudenko; Maryna Golovchenko; Katerina Kybicova and Marie Vancova Published May 16, 2019 Abstract The survival of spirochetes from the Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) complex in a hostile environment is achieved by the regulation of differential gene expression in response to changes in temperature, salts, nutrient content, acidity fluctuation, multiple host or vector dependent factors, and leads to the…
Jennifer MacLean and Amy Haynes-Desjardins have arranged for a Lyme and other tick-borne disease presentation to be held in New Glasgow, NS on Friday evening, September 6th, 2019 at the Pictou Wellness Centre 2-2756 Westville Rd, New Glasgow, NS – 4:30 to 6:00 PM for Health Care Professionals 7:00 to 9:00 PM for the public…
December 13, 2013 / 62(49);993-996 Lyme disease* is a multisystem illness caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete transmitted by certain species of Ixodes ticks. Approximately 30,000 confirmed and probable cases of Lyme disease were reported in the United States in 2012, primarily from high-incidence states in the Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,…