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Congress Acts to Improve CDC and NIH Lyme Disease Programs [Canada Fails]

ByCanLyme Team

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 [CanLyme Note: The Canadian system via the Pubic Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) adopted the same corrupted, biased position of the US CDC.  Now we need Canadian parliamentarians to do the right thing for the sick. Last year, Health Canada announced there would…

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History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition

ByCanLyme Team

Middelveen, et al   https://doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S152343 Abstract: Morgellons disease (MD) is a skin condition characterized by the presence of multicolored filaments that lie under, are embedded in, or project from skin. Although the condition may have a longer history, disease matching the above description was first reported in the US in 2002. Since that time, the condition that…

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Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease

ByCanLyme Team

M. Middelveen, et al. PREPRINT Abstract Introduction: Lyme disease is a tickborne illness that generates controversy among medical providers and researchers. One of the key topics of debate is the existence of persistent infection with the Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in patients who have been treated with recommended doses of antibiotics yet remain symptomatic. Persistent spirochetal infection…

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CanLyme has questioned the self-policing of physicians for years as it protects bad nonsense – NOW CHANGE MAY HAPPEN? Are our politicians listening?

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: This is not isolated to Ontario, it is Canada and world-wide. Many provinces and countries have given the right to medical colleges and associations to self-police. The process has been corrupted and abused for years with many doctors given far too light consequences while on the other hand they use self-policing to force…

Canadian Lyme Consortium, made up of researchers, patients and clinicians is looking for volunteers.

ByCanLyme Team

As you may have heard, there is an exciting new national Canadian research network called the Canadian Lyme Consortium (CLC) led by Dr. Melanie Wills from the G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab at University of Guelph and Dr. Vett Lloyd from the Mount Allison Tick & Lyme Disease Research Lab. The CLC is committed…

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Séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec (22 mars 2018)

ByCanLyme Team

PAR MARGUERITE Samedi 24 Mars 2018 Revue des séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec le jeudi 22 mars 2018 Étude de pétitions concernant l’instauration et l’application d’un plan d’action relatif à la maladie de Lyme, page principale de la Commission de la santé et des services sociaux (CSSS) Enregistrements vidéos des auditions,…

Séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec (22 mars 2018)

ByCanLyme Team

PAR MARGUERITE Samedi 24 Mars 2018 Revue des séances parlementaires sur la maladie de Lyme au Québec le jeudi 22 mars 2018 Étude de pétitions concernant l’instauration et l’application d’un plan d’action relatif à la maladie de Lyme, page principale de la Commission de la santé et des services sociaux (CSSS) Enregistrements vidéos des auditions,…

Maladie de Lyme: un expert français défend la thèse de la «forme chronique»

ByCanLyme Team

March 22, 2018 Philippe Mercure La Presse Du Québec aux États-Unis en passant par la France, des malades affirment souffrir d’une forme « chronique » de la maladie de Lyme – cette infection transmise par une tique et qui est en pleine progression au Québec. Ils ne sont pas toujours pris au sérieux par le corps médical,…

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Australia: Hope for Lyme sufferers with ‘groundbreaking’ pilot study

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Once again, it is the patients, true ethical scientists, and clinicians doing what the governments have refused to do for decades… appropriate research as opposed to the anti-science, anti-patient work of government and medical societies, such as the Infectious Disease Society of America who yield so much control over governments and medical societies…

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Prominent New York-based board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist calls Lyme disease a human rights concern.

ByCanLyme Team

Mar 22, 2018 Dr. Frid is a New York-based board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist who specializes in infection-induced autoimmune disorders. I first met Dr. Frid in Amsterdam last May, where she was speaking at the Lyme disease awareness event Something Inside So Strong. We had a chance to speak about Lyme disease there and then again…

Maladie de Lyme: un expert français défend la thèse de la «forme chronique»

ByCanLyme Team

March 22, 2018 Philippe Mercure La Presse Du Québec aux États-Unis en passant par la France, des malades affirment souffrir d’une forme « chronique » de la maladie de Lyme – cette infection transmise par une tique et qui est en pleine progression au Québec. Ils ne sont pas toujours pris au sérieux par le corps médical,…

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Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR

ByCanLyme Team

Melanie K. B. Wills, Andrea M. Kirby, Vett K. Lloyd Department of Biology, Mount Allison University J. Vis. Exp. (132), e56471, doi:10.3791/56471 (2018) Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR ABSTRACT Lyme disease is a serious vector-borne infection that is caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato family of spirochetes, which are transmitted to…

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Combining public participatory surveillance and occupancy modelling to predict the distributional response of Ixodes scapularis to climate change

ByCanLyme Team

Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 695-706 David J Lieske, Vett K. Lloyd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.01.018 Abstract Ixodes scapularis, a known vector of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (Bbss), is undergoing range expansion in many parts of Canada. The province of New Brunswick, which borders jurisdictions with established populations of I. scapularis, constitutes a range expansion zone for this species. To better understand the…

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Citizen Science and Community Engagement in Tick Surveillance-A Canadian Case Study.

ByCanLyme Team

Healthcare 2018, 6(1), 22; doi:10.3390/healthcare6010022 Julie Lewis, Corinne R. Boudreau, James W. Patterson, Jonathan Bradet-Legris, Vett K. Lloyd Abstract Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and Europe, and on-going surveillance is required to monitor the spread of the tick vectors as their populations expand under the influence of climate change. Active surveillance…

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Lyme disease in Ireland: This is a global threat that is being denied by government bureaucrats around the world who are tied to the United States Center for Disease Control.

ByCanLyme Team

Article on Lyme disease sparks calls for awareness campaign March 11, 2018 A UK SCIENTIST, whose daughter contracted Lyme disease in Bantry, says she would like to be part of an Irish awareness campaign on the tick-borne disease. Responding to reports of high rates of the disease in West Cork and South Kerry, detailed recently…