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By Steven Phillips, MD “My father developed end-stage heart failure in his early 60’s, despite decades of top cardiology care. They said heart transplant was his only hope–They were wrong. Treating an overlooked infection permanently fixed his heart, averting the need for heart transplant. He passed away on 5/9/2021, 1 year ago today, at almost…
May 25, 2022 Good Documentary by a News Reporter that has Been Through it Herself Watch full video
Work on genetically modified pigs might provide a solution to the strange illness “Kristina Carlson didn’t think much about the tick she pulled off her torso while she was hiking in the mountains of North Carolina in September 2020. But back home in Mississippi a month later, Carlson complained to her doctor of aching joints…
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control has updated its information on Lyme disease in the province. A Facebook post shows a map of the province and includes the areas the BCCDC considers ‘high-risk’ Lyme disease zones. “It’s certainly an update, and contradicts much of what doctors have been telling patients throughout the province for…
QUÉBEC, le 19 mai 2022 /CNW Telbec/ – Le ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux, Christian Dubé, annonce aujourd’hui que les Québécois et Québécoises avec des symptômes post-infectieux causés par la COVID-19 et la maladie de Lyme pourront être pris en charge dans une quinzaine de cliniques spécialisées déployées sur l’ensemble du territoire québécois. Voir…
[CanLyme Note: If these clinics as regards to Lyme disease are to be bound to follow the current Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada endorsed guidelines then taxpayers will have their tax dollars wasted once again and chronic Lyme disease sufferers will continue to burden the tax payer…
May 18, 2022 Michelle Snider says she’s has had to pull 25 to 30 ticks off her dogs and herself in 7 days A Toronto woman is warning people to check for ticks after she found several on herself and her two dogs in the past week. Michelle Snider, who lives in the Long Branch…
By Alexa MacLean, Global News May 17th, 2022 A biology professor who studies ticks for a living says Nova Scotians should expect to encounter the parasites whenever they venture outdoors. “Certainly, it’s hard not to notice ticks anywhere in Nova Scotia unless you stay strictly on cement,” said Vett Lloyd, an epigenetics researcher and director of the…
You can view the entire presentation on the Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia website… Watch presentation on their website Watch on YouTube
“Dr. Charles Ray Jones, a trailblazing pediatric Lyme specialist who has treated more than 15,000 children from around the world for tick-borne diseases, has died.” Access article
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Sadly this lack of help for adequate Lyme disease treatment is a Canada-wide problem due in large part to the very poor information given to physicians and other medical professionals by a private self-proclaimed expert group called the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada. Provincial and federal governments have ceded control over the…
May, 2022 “With more ticks and tick bites occurring in Canada year after year, better diagnosis of Lyme disease is the goal of renewed funding from the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases supporting a dedicated Lyme disease research program at the University of Guelph. The G. Magnotta Lyme Disease Research Lab will receive a three-year, $1.2-million grant…
Watch this new trailer on Lyme disease being screened this week at the Hotdocs Festival in Toronto. “Lyme Disease was first discovered in 1975, yet there has been very little progress for patients. Meanwhile, ticks are spreading life-threatening diseases around the world. Some people are left without a cure, and many without a diagnosis in…
Abstract Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct detection methods, such as bacterial culture or molecular analysis, due to their inadequate sensitivity. The low bacterial burden in vasculature and lack of consensus around blood-based isolation of the causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi, are central to this…
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