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[Tick Tick Boom everywhere]
The number of people in the Netherlands with Lyme’s disease continues to rise and the infection total has quadrupled over the past 20 years, the public health council RIVM said on Monday. In total, 27,000 were diagnosed with Lyme’s last year, a rise of 2,000 on 2014 when the RIVM last reported on the prevalence of the tick-borne disease.
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Re: Dog ticks not the same as deer ticks, letters, May 23rd I am writing in response to a reply to the column by Dorothy Turcotte; this was a very timely letter to publish actually, because May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. We were very pleased to have the CN Tower, Niagara Falls and the…
[ CanLyme note: This report underlines what patients and their concerned physicians have known for years and have tried to report. We disagree with this quote in the article, “Health care providers should consider as a cause of cardiac symptoms in patients who live in or have visited a high-incidence Lyme disease region, especially during summer…
Mark Hume VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail – Published Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2015 Internal government documents show blood tests used to check for Lyme disease aren’t very accurate, says a patient who filed a Freedom of Information request because of her concerns about health care standards. “One of the experts talked about the Lyme disease test…
Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20:1040-1043 June 2, 2014 An investigation of a disease outbreak among shy albatrosses in Tasmania led to the discovery of a novel tick-borne phlebovirus with zoonotic potential, according to recent findings. The findings underscore the need for increased scrutiny and awareness regarding these emerging diseases, researchers said. In the study, researchers investigated…
“Borrelia burgdorferi was detected in the brain in 25.3% of AD cases analyzed and was 13 times more frequent in AD compared to controls. Periodontal pathogen Treponemas (T. pectinovorum, T. amylovorum, T. lecithinolyticum, T. maltophilum, T. medium, T. socranskii) and Borrelia burgdorferi were detected using species specific PCR and antibodies. Importantly, co-infection with several spirochetes…
[CanLyme note: Congratulations to to the US House of Representatives for passing this important legislation. Years of hard work by Lyme disease advocates and dedicated representatives has moved the Lyme issue one step closer to taking the control away from the medical political, for-profit associated, bureaucrats and giving it back to pure scientists and patients….
