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[CanLyme note: This study has limitations as noted therein and does not include cost of taxpayer funded disability income payments to the chronically ill, loss of taxable income from those who are unable to work, loss of productivity in the employment sector, along with other indirect costs to society and the taxpayer. It also does…
https://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=533354603 In New York, a worker bears the burden of presenting competent medical evidence establishing a causal relationship between his employment and disability. Case name: Bailey v. Ben Ciccone, Inc., et al., No. 515309 (N.Y. App. Div. 03/14/13). Ruling: The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division held that a worker was entitled to additional…
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, is an extracellular microbe that causes persistent infection despite the development of strong immune responses against the bacterium.
March 9th, 2018 The Canadian Lyme Consortium, representing a united and transparent relationship between patients, clinicians and researchers has issued an update detailing the situation with the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) granting process. Ethics and good science do not seem to be relevant at CIHR as Health Canada continues to fail Canadians. Read…
Julie Bertrand / Oceanside Star November 13, 2014 12:00 AM Qualicum Beach resident Sue Aldous discovered she had Lyme disease through a chance encounter in a Surrey grocery store. Aldous had suffered chronic health problems since 1984. She had headaches, frequent insomnia and digestive issues. Because of her poor health, she lost her job, her…
Abstract Tick-borne zoonotic diseases have an economic and societal impact on the well-being of people worldwide. In the present study, a high frequency of Babesia odocoilei, a red blood cell parasite, was observed in the Huronia area of Ontario, Canada. Notably, 71% (15/21) blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, collected from canine and feline hosts were infected with B. odocoilei….
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Another term for this might be that PHAC/ Health Canada/ CIHR are ‘Captured Organizations’ that will do the bidding of the IDSA and are anticompetitive in a business sense in that they will exclude the views of all others that don’t agree with their dogma.