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Published on April 10, 2014 Today in the Legislature, Tim Houston, Progressive Conservative MLA for Pictou East, introduced a bill to develop a comprehensive Lyme Disease Strategy for Nova Scotia. “I am proud to be able to bring forward this long overdue legislation to address patients’ concerns respecting the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease…
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Shock BC, Moncayo A, Cohen S, Mitchell EA, Williamson PC, Lopez G, Garrison LE, Yabsley MJ. online before print 2014 Apr 4.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.01.003 Abstract Piroplasms in the genera Babesia, Theileria, and Cytauxzoon are tick-borne parasites that may be animal and human pathogens. Most piroplasms with known life cycles are transmitted by ixodid ticks; however, for many…
[Canlyme note : The notion or suggestion that Borrelia miyamotoi is a new disease, is at this point in time proposterous. It is Lyme Disease. This is as silly as saying that each winter season there is a new disease called the flu. The flu is the flu, caused by many strains. Lyme Disease is a disease…
[CanLyme note: A comment that was in the print version of the National Post newspaper has been edited out of the online version, it followed this quote…. “The majority of children … never knew they were bitten by a tick. Arthritis was the very first presenting symptom of their Lyme disease,” said Dr. Elizabeth Stringer, a…
A Kamloops couple whose daughters contracted Lyme disease says the BC Government and the medical community continue to downplay the relevance of the disease in the province. Niki and John Bone say they are shocked to learn other families struggle with finding the proper diagnosis.We recently featured the Hrychiw family whose two boys were forced…
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 01, 2014 Chronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than most other chronic illnesses, according to a newly published comprehensive patient survey. Compared to the general population, patients with chronic Lyme disease have high disability and unemployment rates, are five times more likely to visit healthcare…
[How many more just are left to die in Canada? Not a great tourism advertisement for our country and it’s alleged great medical system] NEW DELHI: Doctors at a private hospital here have given a new lease of life to a man declared “near brain dead” by a hospital in Canada. Asok Debnath, an IT professional…
Lyme Arthritis: an Emerging Clinical Problem in Nova Scotia, Canada Pier D. Glaude1, Adam M. Huber1, Timothy Mailman2, Suzanne Ramsey2, Bianca Lang2 and Elizabeth Stringer1 Article first published online: 27 MAR 2014 DOI: 10.1002/art.38498 Copyright © 2014 by the American College of Rheumatology Seventeen patients were identified; all patients were referred for evaluation of arthritis….
Lyme disease can masquerade as MS, ALS, even dementia and its numbers are growing tenfold. So why is Canada lagging behind in treating and diagnosing it? by Anne Kingston [March 2014] For decades, Gabriel Magnotta, the well-known Ontario wine-industry firebrand, went hunting with a group of friends. These expeditions took them into the wilds of…
Actualité rurale | 4 mars 2014 par Pierre-Yvon Begin Productrice d’arbres de Noël avec son conjoint, Larry, dans les Cantons-de-l’Est, Marlène n’accepte pas le diagnostic. Heureusement, puisque deux médecins des États-Unis auront tôt fait de déceler chez elle la maladie de Lyme. Causée par une bactérie, cette zoonose est transmise à l’homme par un insecte minuscule,…
Actualité rurale | 3 mars 2014 par Pierre-Yvon Begin Le Dr Jacques-Christian Brault pratique la médecine familiale au Bas-Saint-Laurent. Au cours des derniers mois, il a diagnostiqué au moins deux cas de la maladie de Lyme, l’un chez un adulte et l’autre chez un jeune enfant. Dans les deux cas, les victimes ont été en…
Des producteurs agricoles de la région touchés par la maladie de Lyme lancent un cri du coeur à la Direction de la santé publique. Ils déplorent le manque d’information et même, dans certains cas, le manque d’ouverture du corps médical au sujet de cette maladie, pourtant en progression dans le sud du Québec. Il y…
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Publié le 21 mars 2014 à 08h54 | Mis à jour le 21 mars 2014 à 08h54 (SHERBROOKE) «Ce n’est quand même pas normal que les vétérinaires soient capables d’établir le diagnostic de la maladie de Lyme chez les animaux, mais pas les médecins québécois chez les humains.» Dans la foulée de la controverse à…
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