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Interview: The flawed science behind the current global Lyme policies, diagnostics and treatment

ByCanLyme Team

Posted on on-lyme.org Dec 2nd, 2017  Written by Huib Holly Ahern is a professor of microbiology as well as the mother of a child that was severely affected by Lyme Disease. Because of this personal experience and her professional background and training, she was able to dissect the flaws in scientific reasoning that underlie decades of…

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‘Every season is tick season’: Experts warn of winter Lyme disease risk [bitten while xmas tree hunting]

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: Ticks are active in temperatures of minus 4 degrees Celsius and above] November 22, 2017 by Marina von Stackelberg CBCNEWS People have ‘let their guard down’ and aren’t checking for ticks as weather cools, says zoologist   Laurenne Schiller loves taking her dog Cousteau for walks along Halifax trails as the weather cools. But…

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Towards a Better Understanding of the Brain and Body Interaction

ByCanLyme Team

“It is all in your head”. An assessment that is all too familiar to many patients with little understood emergent diseases such as ME, PANS or Lyme. Together with the rise of complex chronic illnesses caused by stealth pathogens, we witness a rise of the invention of so-called ‘somatic disorders’. This is of concern to both patients,…

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New research shows risk for Lyme borreliosis in cities is much the same as in forested areas.

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme note: This should be done in Canadian cities] Published Nov. 21, 2017 Parasites and Vectors Ticks and the city – are there any differences between city parks and natural forests in terms of tick abundance and prevalence of spirochaetes? Abstract Background Ixodes ricinus ticks are commonly encountered in either natural or urban areas, contributing to Lyme…

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Lawsuit: Insurance companies conspiring with physician members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

ByCanLyme Team

November 19th, 2017 Lynne LaRowe Texackana Gazette Major health insurance companies are accused of putting profits over patients suffering from Lyme disease in a lawsuit filed recently in a Texarkana, Texas, federal court. The suit alleges companies including Blue Cross, Kaiser and Aetna violated RICO and anti-trust laws when conspiring with physician members of the…

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Ottawa, Canada: Lyme disease hit record levels in 2017, next year likely to be worse, health officials warn

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme note: The ‘tick key’ mentioned in the article is not a recommended tool as it is too bulky and wide for removing ticks from the many cracks and crevices of our bodies and those of our pets where ticks like to migrate to ie. ears, butt cracks, navals, nostrils, and other private parts.  That is…

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Lyme Disease Patients File Federal Antitrust Suit Against Infectious Disease Specialists & Health Insurers

ByCanLyme Team

Nov 15th, Last Friday, 28 patients filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the Infectious Diseases Society of America, eight health insurance companies, and seven medical doctors, Courthouse News reported yesterday, “because health insurers are denying coverage with bogus guidelines established by their paid consultants, who falsely say the disease can always be cured with a month of antibiotics.” Contrary…

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Mount Allison’s Lyme Research Network launches Maritime Tick Portal

ByCanLyme Team

Nov 15th, 2017 SACKVILLE, NB — Mount Allison University’s Lyme Research Network (LYRN) has released a new resource to help New Brunswickers track ticks in the region. The website – maritimetickmaps.ca – allows users to explore maps of the current and projected geographic distribution of the blacklegged tick in New Brunswick. The project is a collaboration between Mount Allison biologist Dr….

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Tick-borne anaplasmosis surging in Maine – and it’s worse than Lyme

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme note: Canada is only a few hour flight for our many migratory birds who come from Maine (and all of USA) to Canada carrying these infected ticks to our parks, school yards and our back yards.] November 13th, 2017 The illness produces more severe symptoms than Lyme disease and is more difficult to detect; reported…

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How does Lyme disease spread? The answer may lie in the hearts of grouse

ByCanLyme Team

University of New Brunswick forestry students ask hunters to collect bird hearts for disease study Shane Fowler, CBC News November 6th, 2017 A Fredericton lab is on the hunt for bird hearts. Contact Joe Nocera at UNB joe [dot] nocera [at] unb [dot] ca 1 506 447 3214. Researchers at the University of New Brunswick…

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Why Donate to CanLyme? CanLyme Research Dollars Funding Young Scientists for our Future Gain.

ByCanLyme Team

Help us help you and your family. Monthly or one-time donations are needed. We are an all volunteer organization with many Canadian and international science advisors. diagnostics and treatment are woefully inadequate. A partnership between Mount Allison University and CanLyme is producing fruit by opening minds of young scientists and creating a foundation for the…

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Lyme bug stronger than antibiotics in animals and test tubes. Now study people.

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme note: This article supports the Canadian patient’s request of federal and provincial governments to stop blatantly endorsing the Infectious Disease Society of America and the United States Center for Disease Control. They refuse open discussion and evaluation of their policy while condemning tens of thousands to a lifetime of hell, or sadly, in too many…

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New study released from British Columbia supports what patient groups have been saying since 1989

ByCanLyme Team

[CanLyme Note: In a quick review of this newly published paper it both gave us hope that progress is slowly being made, and a sense of sadness for the dismissive attitude shown patient groups by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) since the late 1990’s. With the formation of the Lyme Borreliosis Society…

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Selective Essential Oils from Spice or Culinary Herbs Have High Activity against Stationary Phase and Biofilm Borrelia burgdorferi

ByCanLyme Team

Front. Med., 11 October 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2017.00169 Jie Feng, Shuo Zhang, Wanliang Shi, Nevena Zubcevik, Judith Miklossy, Ying Zhang Although the majority of patients with acute Lyme disease can be cured with the standard 2–4 week antibiotic treatment, about 10–20% of patients continue suffering from chronic symptoms described as posttreatment Lyme disease syndrome. While the cause…

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MacLean’s magazine: How the new impatient patient is disrupting medicine

ByCanLyme Team

Patient activists have never been as vocal. But are they truly being heard? Anne Kingston October 21, 2017In late August, Sue Faber and Jennifer Kravis hauled close to 150 pounds of documents and scientific research into a Health Canada office in Ottawa. The two women, co-founders of Lyme-patient advocacy group LymeHope, had been granted a…