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Latest research shows Canada’s decision to fund only one large national Lyme research conglomerate goes against creation of new ideas.

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Even worse is that the 4 million tax payer dollars given to the conglomerate, Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network (CLyDRN), is now controlled by members of the anti-science/ethics private group the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada (AMMI) which is the puppet arm of the highly controversial Infectious Disease Society of…

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Chronicle Herald: COUNTERPOINT: Hitting the wall of denial with chronic Lyme

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Robert Strang has been purveyor of misinformation relative to Lyme disease; it’s prevalence, the chronic nature of the disease, and the ability of the bacteria to survive short term antibiotics, for so long and with such an anti-science, pro-opinion bias  see that he is disqualified to represent public health, yet the Nova Scotia government has…

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Chronicle Herald: Chief medical officer’s Lyme disease retweet likely violated policy — legal expert

ByCanLyme Team

January 29th, 2019 by Andrew Rankin The Chronicle Herald HALIFAX, N.S. —  A recent tweet by Nova Scotia’s top doctor dismissing chronic Lyme disease as a pseudoscience supported by a cult following appears to violate the province’s social media policy, says a Dalhousie University law professor. “What I also don’t understand is what does he really…

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Nova Scotia’s top doctor takes heat over retweet dismissing chronic Lyme disease

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Once you read this article you will see that the Nova Scotia Minister of Health chimed in with the usual pre-formatted line that the province follows evidence-based guidelines. For research and science to become evidence, it requires transparent debate with stakeholders. There is no more important stakeholder in health care than the sick patient…

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Les défenseurs des personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme disent que le Canada offre des «simili mesures» aux patients

ByCanLyme Team

Le gouvernement canadien a récemment annoncé de nouveaux investissements dans la recherche sur la maladie de Lyme. Cependant, les défenseurs canadiens des gens atteints de la maladie de Lyme craignent que la voix des patients soit exclue du processus décisionnel. Dans l’article suivant, le Consortium canadien de la maladie de Lyme (CLC), composé de représentants,…

Les défenseurs des personnes atteintes de la maladie de Lyme disent que le Canada offre des «simili mesures» aux patients

ByCanLyme Team

Le gouvernement canadien a récemment annoncé de nouveaux investissements dans la recherche sur la maladie de Lyme. Cependant, les défenseurs canadiens des gens atteints de la maladie de Lyme craignent que la voix des patients soit exclue du processus décisionnel. Dans l’article suivant, le Consortium canadien de la maladie de Lyme (CLC), composé de représentants,…

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Lyme advocates say Canada offers “toxic tokenism” to patients

ByCanLyme Team

The Canadian government recently announced new investment in Lyme disease research. However, Canadian Lyme advocates fear that the patient voice will be excluded from the decision-making process. In the following article, the Canadian Lyme Consortium (CLC)–made up of advocates, patients, researchers and practitioners–offers background and context. By Vett Lloyd, PhD; Liz Zubek, MD, CCFP FCFP; Sue Faber and Jennifer Kravis,…

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CTV’s Avis Favaro “Mothers on a mission to prove Lyme disease can be passed to unborn child”

ByCanLyme Team

“These mothers and their kids struggled for years with severe dizziness, pain, digestive problems, infections and impaired motor function that doctors couldn’t diagnose. Some were bedridden. One teen boy missed his entire high school education. One family was even close to committing their daughter to an institution because doctors believed her symptoms to be psychosomatic….

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Lyme Encephalopathy: Impact on Quality of Life

ByCanLyme Team

B.L. Goldklang (1), S.S. Festa (1), and J.S. Hason (1,2). Lyme Disease Coalition of New York and Connecticut, Katonah, NY, USA (1); Arthritis Foundation, Long Island, NY, USA (2). Lyme encephalopathy has been defined in the medical literature as a “mild confusional state” characterized by subtle disturbances in memory, mood, and sleep.1’3 To patients with…

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Establishment of a continuous in vitro culture of Babesia duncani in human erythrocytes reveals unusually high tolerance to recommended therapies. [ie Mepron not too effective?]

ByCanLyme Team

November 21st, 2018 Abstract Human babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by apicomplexan parasites of the genus Babesia. Clinical cases caused by Babesia duncani have been associated with high parasite burden, severe pathology and death. In both mice and hamsters, the parasite causes uncontrolled fulminant infections, which ultimately lead to death. Resolving these infections requires knowledge of B. duncani biology, virulence,…

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Evaluating polymicrobial immune responses in patients suffering from tick-borne diseases

ByCanLyme Team

October 29 2018, Garga K et al There is insufficient evidence to support screening of various tick-borne diseases (TBD) related microbes alongside Borrelia in patients suffering from TBD. To evaluate the involvement of multiple microbial immune responses in patients experiencing TBD we utilized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Four hundred and thirty-two human serum samples organized into…

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Canadian government asked by international Health Equity committee to reverse secretive, harmful, and unethical interference that will affect mothers and children worldwide.

ByCanLyme Team

December 22, 2018 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Honorable Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, Honorable Minister Jody Wilson-Rebould, Dr. Mithani, Dr. Tam, Honorable Andrew Scheer, Elizabeth May and Jagmeet Singh and Kimberly Elmslie, I am the Director of the Ad Hoc Committee for Health Equity in ICD11 Borreliosis Codes (or Ad Hoc Committee). The Ad Hoc Committee is…

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Doctors, public left in the dark on danger to babies – Chronicle Herald

ByCanLyme Team

Published in the Chronicle Herald newspaper December 21, 2018 by Jane Bailey The following statement is false. You can only get Lyme disease from a black-legged tick. The next two statements are true. You can pass Lyme disease to your unborn baby. Your baby can suffer very serious adverse outcomes, including from miscarriage, stillbirth, and…