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Draft of report to parliament regarding Bill 442 now online and open to public input.

ByCanLyme Team

February 7th, 2017 As per the requirements of Bill 442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Health Canada held a conference on Lyme disease in May of 2016.  It was a well balanced conference that revealed significant divergent opinions among experts on the most important issues to the affected Canadian… diagnosis and treatment. Without…

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A technology backed by Bill Gates may revolutionize diagnostics for Lyme disease

ByCanLyme Team

Diana Pryor, CNBC news associate   February 7th, 2017 While the medical and health community is putting a spotlight on diseases like Zika, Ebola and tuberculosis, another disease, transmitted by ticks, is getting little notice: Lyme disease. The ticks that carry Lyme disease are spreading rapidly across the U.S. and are now located in nearly half…

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Canadian tax payer funded Lyme research not good value for dollar

ByCanLyme Team

In December of 2016 a Canadian article was published in PLOS ONE proporting itself as a good systematic review about Lyme disease testing accuracy. CanLyme has been trying to work closely with government on the value of good science as good evidence yet once again the government of Canada has managed to publish low-quality material without…

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Flunk the Lyme test? Just wait and get sicker

ByCanLyme Team

January, 2017, Huffington Post Sin Lee, a pathologist and scientist, believes the deck is stacked in the quest to air new ideas on Lyme disease. Too many science journals telling him to take his research elsewhere. Too many deftly worded rejections. Too little inclination to engage in a fair fight over the facts and fiction…

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MicroRNA and mRNA Transcriptome Profiling in Primary Human Astrocytes Infected with Borrelia burgdorferi.

ByCanLyme Team

Abstract   Lyme disease is caused by infection with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), which is transmitted to humans by deer ticks. The infection manifests usually as a rash and minor systemic symptoms; however, the bacteria can spread to other tissues, causing joint pain, carditis, and neurological symptoms. Lyme neuroborreliosis presents itself in several ways,…

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First report of a blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), parasitizing a raptor in Canada

ByCanLyme Team

Systematic & Applied Acarology 22(2): 208–216 (2017) https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.22.2.5 Abstract We document the first report of a blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, parasitizing an American Kestrel, Falco sparverius Linnaeus (Falconiformes: Falconidae), in Canada. A fully engorged I. scapularis nymph was collected from the base of the tongue of an American Kestrel nestling recovered at Mirabel, Québec….

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Antibiotic gel shows promise in preventing onset of Lyme borreliosis following tick bite

ByCanLyme Team

December 2016 Topical azithromycin for the prevention of Lyme borreliosis: a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 efficacy trial   An antibiotic gel based on azithromycin, helps with prevention of Lyme disease following a tick bite. That is the finding of a multi-centre international study, in which MedUni Vienna’s Department of Clinical Pharmacology played an important part….

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The Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi infects murine bone and induces trabecular bone loss

ByCanLyme Team

Tian Tian Tang, Lucia Zhang, Anil Bansal, Marc Grynpas, and Tara J. Moriarty Accepted Manuscript Posted Online 12 December 2016 Infect. Immun. doi:10.1128/IAI.00781-16 Copyright © 2016 Tang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. ABSTRACT Lyme disease is caused by members of the…

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Woman’s Mystery Illness Turns Out to Be Tick-Borne Disease

ByCanLyme Team

By Gillian Mohney and Dr. Sabrina Anna Rebis A 66-year-old woman’s mysterious illness that left her feverish and with slurred speech initially stumped her doctors. As the woman’s condition continued to deteriorate, an infectious disease doctor eventually identified the cause — the woman had contracted a bacterial disease caused by a tick bite. Researchers from George…

Conférence pour élaborer un cadre fédéral relatif à la maladie de lyme du 15 au 17 mai 2016 : Rapport sommaire de la conférence

ByCanLyme Team

Le présent rapport a été préparé à titre informatif uniquement. Il vise à fournir un aperçu des messages clés exprimés par les présentateurs et les participants qui ont assisté à la conférence, la majorité étant des patients qui ont partagé leurs expériences personnelles (voir la figure 1). Les messages et les idées clés résumés dans…

Common misdiagnoses

ByCanLyme Team

Lyme victims are commonly misdiagnosed with other illnesses, such as: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Colitis Crohn’s disease Early ALS Early Alzheimers disease Encephalitis Fibromyalgia Fifth’s disease Gastroesophageal Reflux disease Infectious Arthritis Interstitial Cystis Irritable Bowel Syndrome Juvenile Arthritis Lupus Ménières Syndrome Multiple Sclerosis Osteoarthritis Prostatitis Psoriatic Arthritis Psychiatric disorders (bipolar, depression, etc.) Raynaud’s Syndrome Reactive Arthritis…

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Chasser la tique avec des draps de flanelle

ByCanLyme Team

[un message canlyme: La maladie de Lyme est à travers le Québec. Il est partout où les merles volent. Robins et d’autres oiseaux transportent les tiques partout et les oiseaux transportent la maladie dans leur sang pour infecter de nouvelles tiques.] 16 août 2016 Jessica Nadeau – Science et technologie Le Devoir “Il a connu des expériences…

COMMUNIQUÉ : Quebec – La maladie de Lyme

ByCanLyme Team

COMMUNIQUÉ IL EST URGENT D’AGIR! La maladie de Lyme est en progression constante chez les humains et les animaux au Québec. Laval, le 18 mai 2015. – L’Association des médecins vétérinaires du Québec en pratique des petits animaux (AMVQ) a réuni, pour la première fois sur un même plateau de télévision, différents spécialistes de la…