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TORONTO – Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne says she’s recovering from a months-long battle with Lyme disease. The Napanee, Ont.-raised singer-songwriter tells People magazine she was diagnosed with a severe case of the disease last fall. In an exclusive cover story on the magazine’s website, the 30-year-old says she was bedridden for five months. View…
BY CHERYL BROWNE, BARRIE EXAMINER FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, APRIL 03, 2015 11:35 PM EDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, APRIL 03, 2015 11:44 PM EDT BARRIE, Ont. – Much like the tick that carries it, Lyme disease has reared its ugly head again. Tyler Andrews said he was working on a home in Ontario’s Muskoka region in…
TORONTO – Avril Lavigne has revealed she was bedridden for five months suffering from Lyme disease. “I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move,” the Canadian singer told People. “I thought I was dying.” Lavigne said she felt lethargic and lightheaded for months but didn’t know why. She finally got…
March 21, 2015 Abstract Lyme disease is a systemic infection commonly found in the northeastern, mid-Atlantic and north-central regions of the United States. Of the many systemic manifestations of Lyme disease, cardiac involvement is uncommon and rarely causes mortality. We describe a case of a 17-year-old adolescent who died unexpectedly after a 2-week viral-like syndrome….
Abstract Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is an emerging zoonotic disease in Canada and is vectored by the blacklegged tick,Ixodes scapularis. Here we used Bayesian analyses of sequence types (STs), determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), to investigate the phylogeography of B. burgdorferi populations in southern Canada and the United…
Stanford Report, March 16, 2015 Stanford researchers unravel secrets of shape-shifting bacteria “Six decades ago, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg observed how bacteria could essentially go undercoverin ways that might trick the human immune system. Now, using new techniques, Stanford bioengineers have created a time-lapse video that shows this process step by step.” BY TOM…
Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 March 2015 07:04 Short-term doxycycline use does not stain kids’ teeth, CDC/IHS study finds March 17, 2015 – Kids are five times more likely than adults to die from tickborne diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). Doctors often avoid prescribing doxycycline, the most effective RMSF treatment, for young children because…
Elaine Crossley finally gets proper diagnosis, but the battle is far from over It seemed innocent enough. In March 2009, Elaine Crossley was working in the yard with her husband Bill Wheeler. Later that day, she noticed a bite on her leg. It didn’t hurt and it wasn’t itchy. She thought it might be a…
Carlos D. Martínez-Balzano, MD; Bruce Greenberg, MD, MBA Neuroborreliosis can cause multiple cranial and peripheral neuropathies; however, involvement of both recurrent laryngeal nerves is rare. We report the case of a 90-year-old man who presented with dysphonia and right upper and lower extremity weakness. His course was complicated by bilateral vocal cord paralysis and respiratory…
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.01.011 February 25, 2015 Nervous system involvement in Lyme disease often mimics other conditions and thus represents a diagnostic challenge, especially in an emergency department setting. We report a case of a female teenager presenting with sudden-onset aphasia and transient right-sided faciobrachial hemiplegia, along with headache and agitation. Ischemia, vasculitis, or another structural lesion…
BY JOE LAWLOR Press Herald Mar 2nd, 2015 A bill would prevent the state medical board from punishing a doctor who prescribes long-term antibiotics, a disputed method for fighting the spreading disease. SACO – Lisa Lawlor couldn’t find a doctor in Maine willing to treat her chronic Lyme disease, so she traveled to Portsmouth, New…
Abstract Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever Borrelia group spirochete that is transmitted by the same hard-bodied (ixodid) tick species that transmit the agents of Lyme disease. It was discovered in 1994 in Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Japan. B. miyamotoi species phylogenetically cluster with the relapsing fever group spirochetes, which usually are transmitted by…
[ CanLyme note: Western Canadian ticks often come from migratory birds from California and other western states. Borrelia bissettii was found in the province of British Columbia well over a decade ago, yet there is still no human test that properly tests for it and many other Borrelia genotypes known to occur. Patients in Canada are…
doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2014.12.003 Abstract Babesia spp. are obligate protozoan parasites of red blood cells. Transmission to humans occurs through bites from infected ticks or blood transfusion. Infections with B. microti account for the majority of the reported cases of human babesiosis in the USA. A lower incidence is caused by the more recently described species B. duncani….
February 21st, 2015 New Deadly Tick Borne Bourbon Virus Found in Kansas, man fell ill and died after becoming infected by a new strain of virus transmitted via a tick bite. At this time, the CDC and Kansas health officials are still trying to determine if there are any other cases. According to Bloomberg Business,…
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