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OTTAWA – Bill C-442, the National Lyme Disease Strategy Act, passed second reading in the House of Commons yesterday evening and has now been sent to the House Standing Committee on Health for further study. Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich–Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada first introduced this bill…
Abstract Introduction: Descriptions of Lyme disease and dementia are rare. Objective: To describe patients with dementia and a positive “intrathecal anti-Borrelia antibody index” (AI), specific for neuroborreliosis. Methods: Among 1,594 patients seen for dementia, we prospectively identified and studied 20 patients (1.25%) with dementia and a positive AI. Patients underwent a battery…
by Sarah Massah – Peace Arch News posted Apr 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM It was a full house at a South Surrey Lyme disease forum last week. The April 24 event at Semiahmoo House Society was hosted by local Discount Tire owner Louise Roderick – who had spoken to Peace Arch News last summer about…
Lyme disease might be the real culprit By: Melissa Martin, Winnipeg Free Press, from April 15th, 2010 Fact: Manitoba has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the country. Or do we just think we do? In a recent thesis, Winnipeg researcher Kathleen Crang found that some Manitobans diagnosed with MS and other chronic…
CTV’s medical specialist Avis Favaro reports on the painful side effects of undiagnosed Lyme disease in Canada and the link to child arthritis. Dr. Robbin Lindsay from the National Microbiology Laboratory speaks. Prompt and thorough tick checks are required. Watch CTV News
[CanLyme Note: The $300,000 noted in the article were transferred by CanLyme to the G. Magnotta Foundation for Vector-Borne Diseases in Toronto, not directly to the Humber River Hospital as stated in the article. These monies were raised by the Magnotta family for the purpose of establishing a research facility. The research program is being…
[CanLyme note: The comments below are a review by our expert science reviewers in light of some of the content in the now published Purple Paper. This paper will be used in university settings, and cited. It is an example of how young minds are pulled in one direction only, and never given the entire argument. Taxpayers…
Researchers have discovered a new Lyme disease endemic area in Frontenac County that was likely started by spring migratory songbirds. This remote site, near Verona, Ontario, is located a considerable distance from roads and dwellings, which indicates that songbirds introduced immature (larva, nymphs) blacklegged ticks, the primary vector of the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi….
NEW WATERFORD — Nova Scotia Health minister Leo Glavine said after hearing families are being forced to leave the province to get treated for Lyme disease, he’s willing to step in immediately to do something about it. “I can confirm the Department of Heath – and currently as Minister of Health – I’m committed to…
Ongoing meetings, Winnipeg, MB Meet every third Tuesday of month. Month of February, meeting Tuesday February 17 at 7 pm, 622 Tache, Winnipeg, Manitoba. All welcome Calgary, AB, April 23rd, 2015 Dual showing of Under Our Skin For details go to https://www.albertalyme.org/events/index.html Nelson, BC, May 23rd, 2015 Showing of Under Our Skin 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm…
By Raechal Leone Shewfelt | Yahoo Celebrity – Fri, Apr 18, 2014 21:52 BST Debbie Gibson isn’t just a pop star. For the past year, she’s also been a patient. Gibson, who is best known for her ’80s songs such as “Only in My Dreams” and “Shake Your Love,” revealed on her blog Wednesday that…
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation president, Jim Wilson, was invited to Cawston, BC, to present an awareness and information session to resident of Cawston, BC, and surrounding area, at their community hall. For our part at CanLyme even small communities such as Cawston need to have better information given to them considering that many in the area are…
Antonia Dibernardo, Tyler Cote, Nicholas H Ogden and L Robbin Lindsay Published: 15 April 2014 Abstract (provisional) Background Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis are vectors of the tick-borne pathogens Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti. Recently, the I. scapularis-borne bacterium Borrelia miyamotoi has been linked to human illness in North America. The range of this tick is…
April 15th, 2014 Last week radio host John Oakley had a physician on who dismissed Lyme Disease as being a big deal, and that US labs that are diagnosing Canadians with Lyme simply for profit. For a physician to make such a statement without evidence gives some insight into how baseless rumour and inuendo seems to…
By Allan Benner, The Tribune Friday, April 11, 2014 11:10:22 EDT AM Alex Latham was inspired when he learned about the plight of a Welland woman diagnosed with Lyme disease. He was at work at General Motors when a co-worker told him about the challenges 24-year-old Bylynnda Turvey and her family have faced in trying…
